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Galactic winds shape the stellar, gas, and metal content of galaxies. To quantify their impact, we must understand their physics. We review potential wind-driving mechanisms and observed wind properties, with a focus on the warm ionized and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-06-21 Todd A. Thompson , Timothy M. Heckman

Galactic winds and mass outflows are observed both in nearby starburst galaxies and in high-redshift star-forming galaxies. In this paper we develop a simple analytic model to understand the observed superwind phenomenon. Our model is built…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chenggang Shu , H. J. Mo , Shude Mao

Substantial numbers of morphologically regular early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies contain molecular gas, and the quantities of gas are probably sufficient to explain recent estimates of the current level of star formation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lisa Young , Martin Bureau , Alison Crocker , Francoise Combes

We show that the gas in growing density perturbations is vulnerable to the influence of winds outflowing from nearby collapsed galaxies that have already formed stars. This suggests that the formation of nearby galaxies with masses less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Andrea Ferrara , Tom Broadhurst

High surface density, rapidly star-forming galaxies are observed to have $\approx 50-100\,{\rm km\,s^{-1}}$ line-of-sight velocity dispersions, which are much higher than expected from supernova driving alone, but may arise from large-scale…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Sharanya Sur , Evan Scannapieco , Eve C. Ostriker

Measurements of interstellar absorption lines in 18 ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIGs) have been combined with published data, in order to reassess the dependence of galactic outflow speeds on starburst luminosity and galactic mass.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Crystal L. Martin

We study steady, radial gas outflows from galaxies in an effort to understand the way tenuous and hot gas is transported to large distances away from galaxies. In particular, we obtain solutions for outflow problems, and study the outflow…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Boqi Wang

Properties of starburst-driven outflows in dwarf galaxies are compared to those in more massive galaxies. Over a factor of roughly 10 in galactic rotation speed, supershells are shown to lift warm ionized gas out of the disk at rates up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Crystal L. Martin

The formation of galaxies is regulated by a balance between the supply of gas and the rate at which it is ejected. Traditional explanations of gas ejection equate the energy required to escape the galaxy or host halo to an estimate for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. J. Stringer , R. G. Bower , S. Cole , C. S. Frenk , T. Theuns

We examine the growth of the stellar content of galaxies from z=3-0 in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations incorporating parameterised galactic outflows. Without outflows, galaxies overproduce stellar masses (M*) and star formation rates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Romeel Davé , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Kristian Finlator

We present semi-analytical models of galactic outflows in high redshift galaxies driven by both hot thermal gas and non-thermal cosmic rays. Thermal pressure alone may not sustain a large scale outflow in low mass galaxies (i.e $M\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-21 Saumyadip Samui , Kandaswamy Subramanian , Raghunathan Srianand

We present analytical solutions for winds from galaxies with NFW dark matter halo. We consider winds driven by energy and mass injection from multiple supernovae, as well as momentum injection due to radiation from a central black hole. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mahavir Sharma , Biman B. Nath

Galactic winds from star-forming galaxies are crucial to the process of galaxy formation and evolution, regulating star formation, shaping the stellar mass function and the mass-metallicity relation, and enriching the intergalactic medium…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-05 Dong Zhang

We present two dimensional cylindrically symmetric hydrodynamic simulations and synthetic emission maps of a stellar wind propagating into an infalling, rotating environment. The resulting outflow morphology, collimation and stability…

We present a sample of 17 objects from the CALIFA survey where we find initial evidence of galactic winds based on their off-axis ionization properties. We identify the presence of outflows using various optical diagnostic diagrams (e.g.,…

Ninety per cent of baryons are located outside galaxies, either in the circumgalactic or intergalactic medium. Theory points to galactic winds as the primary source of the enriched and massive circumgalactic medium. Winds from compact…

Using high resolution, fully cosmological smoothed particle hydro-dynamical simulations of dwarf galaxies in a Lambda cold dark matter Universe, we show how baryons attain a final angular momentum distribution which allows pure disc…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. B. Brook , F. Governato , R. Roskar , G. Stinson , A. Brooks , J. Wadsley , T. Quinn , B. K. Gibson , O. Snaith , K. Pilkington , E. House , A. Pontzen

Molecular outflows contributing to the matter cycle of star forming galaxies are now observed in small and large systems at low and high redshift. Their physical origin is still unclear. In most theoretical studies only warm ionised/neutral…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-28 Philipp Girichidis , Thorsten Naab , Stefanie Walch , Thomas Berlok

Direct observational constraints on the earliest, stellar-wind-dominated phases of galactic outflows remain scarce. We present medium-resolution VLT/X-shooter spectroscopy of six Type I superluminous supernova (SLSN-I) host galaxies at z =…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-16 A. Saldana-Lopez , A. Gkini , M. J. Hayes , R. Lunnan , C. A. Carr , M. Huberty , C. Scarlata , S. Schulze , J. Sollerman

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) drive fast winds in the interstellar medium of their host galaxies. It is commonly assumed that the high ambient densities and intense radiation fields in galactic nuclei imply short cooling times, thus making…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 C. -A. Faucher-Giguere , E. Quataert