The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect due to hyper-starburst galaxy winds
Abstract
We construct a simple, spherical blastwave model to estimate the pressure structure of the intergalactic medium surrounding hyper-starburst galaxies, and argue that the effects of interaction with star-forming galaxy winds may be approximated at early times by an adiabatically expanding, self-similar `bubble' as described by Weaver et al. (1977) and Ostriker & McKee (1988). This model is used to make observational predictions for the thermal Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the shocked bubble plasma. Radiative cooling losses are explored, and it is found that bremsstrahlung will limit the epoch of adiabatic expansion to -- years: comparable to total hyper-starburst lifetimes. Prospects for making a first Sunyaev-Zel'dovich detection of galaxy wind bubbles using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array are examined for a number of active hyper-starburst sources in the literature.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1005.4234,
title = {The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect due to hyper-starburst galaxy winds},
author = {Barnaby Rowe and Joseph Silk},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.4234},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Version accepted for publication in MNRAS