English
Related papers

Related papers: Cooling Gas Outflows from Galaxies

200 papers

We study the formation of disks via the cooling flow of gas within galactic haloes using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations resolve mass scales of a few thousand solar masses in the gas component for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

We present a versatile family of model galactic outflows including non-uniform mass and energy source distributions, a gravitational potential from an extended mass source, and radiative losses. The model easily produces steady-state wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Chad Bustard , Ellen G. Zweibel , Elena D'Onghia

I present a suite of three-dimensional simulations of the evolution of initially-hot material ejected by starburst-driven galaxy outflows. The simulations are conducted in a comoving frame that moves with the material, tracking atomic/ionic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 Evan Scannapieco

Warm ionized and cold neutral outflows with velocities exceeding $100\,{\rm km\,s}^{-1}$ are commonly observed in galaxies and clusters. Theoretical studies however indicate that ram pressure from a hot wind, driven either by the central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-18 Yu Qiu , Haojie Hu , Kohei Inayoshi , Luis C. Ho , Tamara Bogdanovic , Brian R. McNamara

We use hydrodynamic simulations with adaptive grid refinement to study the dependence of hot gas flows in X-ray luminous giant elliptical galaxies on the efficiency of heat supply to the gas. We consider a number of potential heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Kritsuk , T. Plewa , E. Mueller

We examine the effects of galaxy outflows on the formation of dwarf galaxies in numerical simulations of the high-redshift Universe. Using a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamic code, we conduct two detailed simulations of a (5.2 Mpc/h)^3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Evan Scannapieco , Robert J. Thacker , Marc Davis

Energy injection by supernovae may drive hot supersonic galactic winds in rapidly star-forming galaxies, driving metal-enriched gas into the circumgalactic medium and potentially accelerating cool gas. If sufficiently mass-loaded, such…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-28 Cassandra Lochhaas , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider

We explore the impact of electron thermal conduction on the evolution of radiatively-cooled cold clouds embedded in flows of hot and fast material, as occur in outflowing galaxies. Performing a parameter study of three-dimensional adaptive…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 Marcus Brüggen , Evan Scannapieco

We study fundamental properties of isothermal, steady and spherically symmetric galactic outflow in the gravitational potential of a cold dark matter halo and a central super-massive black hole. We find that there are two transonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-05-16 Asuka Igarashi , Masao Mori , Shin-ya Nitta

Theoretical and observational arguments suggest that there is a large amount of hot ($\sim 10^6$ K), diffuse gas residing in the Milky Way's halo, while its total mass and spatial distribution are still unclear. In this work, we present a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Xiang-Er Fang , Fulai Guo , Ye-Fei Yuan

During the formation of large galaxies, thermal instability leads to the formation of a population of cool fragments embedded within a background of tenuous hot gas. The hot gas attains a quasi-hydrostatic equilibrium. Although the cool…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Stephen D. Murray , Douglas N. C. Lin

The molecular phase of supernova-driven outflows originates from the cold, molecular gas in the disc of a star-forming galaxy, and may carry a substantial fraction of the wind mass flux in some galaxies, but it remains poorly understood.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-24 Aditi Vijayan , Mark R. Krumholz

The existence of fast moving, cold gas ubiquitously observed in galactic winds is theoretically puzzling, since the destruction time of cold gas is much smaller than its acceleration time. In previous work, we showed that cold gas can…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-11 Max Gronke , S. Peng Oh

We review the origin and structure of hot (cooling flow) gas in elliptical galaxies. X-ray observations can be used to determine the stellar mass to light ratio, the mass profiles of dark matter halos, and the interstellar magnetic field.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 William G. Mathews , Fabrizio Brighenti

Using hydrodynamic simulations, we study the mass loss due to supernova-driven outflows from Milky Way type disk galaxies, paying particular attention to the effect of the extended hot halo gas. We find that the total mass loss at inner…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-02-13 Kartick Chandra Sarkar , Biman B. Nath , Prateek Sharma , Yuri Shchekinov

We perform a stacking analysis of the neutral \nad\,$\lambda\lambda$5889,5895\,\AA\ ISM doublet using the SDSS DR7 spectroscopic data set to probe the prevalence and characteristics of cold (T\,$\lesssim$\,10$^{4}$\,K) galactic-scale gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-31 G. W. Roberts-Borsani , A. Saintonge

Expanding X-ray cavities observed in hot gas atmospheres of many galaxy groups and clusters generate shock waves and turbulence that are primary heating mechanisms required to avoid uninhibited radiatively cooling flows which are not…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Fabrizio Brighenti , William G. Mathews , Pasquale Temi

Galactic winds exhibit a multiphase structure that consists of hot-diffuse and cold-dense phases. Here we present high-resolution idealised simulations of the interaction of a hot supersonic wind with a cold cloud with the moving-mesh code…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-28 Martin Sparre , Christoph Pfrommer , Mark Vogelsberger

Using X-ray constrained beta-models for the radial distribution of gas in the outskirts of galaxies, we analyze the termination of galactic winds and the formation and evolution of halo clouds by thermal instability. At low mass-loss rates,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-15 Michael Shull , Jacob A. Moss

When cool clouds are ram-pressure accelerated by a hot supersonic galactic wind, some of the clouds may be shredded by hydrodynamical instabilities and incorporated into the hot flow. Recent one-dimensional steady-state calculations show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-25 Dustin D. Nguyen , Todd A. Thompson , Evan E. Schneider , Ashley P. Tarrant