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气体循环与星系演化

Gas circulation and galaxy evolution

Filippo Fraternali

摘要:

星系团必须通过从星系际环境中获取气体来形成和演化,然而这种气体吸积发生的方式仍然知之甚少。恒星形成星系被多相晕所包围,这些晕似乎主要是由内部过程产生的,例如,银河喷泉然而,一小部分的晕气体显示出指向外部起源的特征。对局部宇宙中的晕气吸积速率的估计始终给出的值远低于以观测到的速率维持恒星形成所需的值。因此,大部分的气体吸积必须是“隐藏的”,不能直接看到。我讨论了可能的机制,可以导致星系际气体冷却,并加入恒星形成星系盘。一种可能性是,气体吸积是由银河喷泉过程通过喷泉气体与日冕低金属含量气体的湍流混合驱动的。

英文摘要:

Galaxies must form and evolve via the acquisition of gas from the intergalactic environment, however the way this gas accretion takes place is still poorly understood. Star-forming galaxies are surrounded by multiphase halos that appear to be mostly produced by internal processes, e.g., galactic fountains. However, a small fraction of the halo gas shows features that point to an external origin. Estimates of the halo-gas accretion rate in the local Universe consistently give values much lower than what would be required to sustain star formation at the observed rate. Thus, most of the gas accretion must be "hidden" and not seen directly. I discuss possible mechanisms that can cause the intergalactic gas to cool and join the star-forming galactic disks. A possibility is that gas accretion is driven by the galactic-fountain process via turbulent mixing of the fountain gas with the coronal low-metallicity gas.

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