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arXiv 2003.12297astro-ph.GA
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失控的恒星如何推动星系外流

How runaway stars boost galactic outflows

Eric P. Andersson, Oscar Agertz, Florent Renaud

摘要:

大约有10%的OB星在以超新星的形式结束生命之前被踢出了它们的出生星团。这些所谓的逃逸恒星可以以数百秒差距的速度进入低密度的星际介质,在那里,来自恒星反馈的动量和能量被有效地储存起来。在这项工作中,我们将探讨这种机制如何影响星系的大尺度特性,如外流。要做到这一点,我们使用一个新的模型,它对待OB星和他们相关的反馈过程上的一个明星的基础上。有了这个模型,我们比较两个流体动力学模拟银河系类星系,一个我们包括离家出走,和一个我们忽略它们。在气体密度为1 e-5 cm^-3至1 e-3 cm^-3的区域,如果将逃逸恒星包括在内,超新星爆炸的数量会增加一倍。这导致臂间区域更有效地加热,并驱动强烈的星系风,质量负载因子提高了一个数量级。这些外流产生了更大质量和更广泛的多相环星系介质,以及晕中的密集云。相反,由于在致密的恒星形成区释放的能量和动量较少,因此星际介质的冷相受到反馈效应的干扰较少。

英文摘要:

Roughly ten per cent of OB stars are kicked out of their natal clusters before ending their life as supernovae. These so-called runaway stars can travel hundreds of parsecs into the low-density interstellar medium, where momentum and energy from stellar feedback is efficiently deposited. In this work we explore how this mechanism affects large scale properties of the galaxy, such as outflows. To do so we use a new model which treats OB stars and their associated feedback processes on a star-by-star basis. With this model we compare two hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies, one where we include runaways, and one where we ignore them. Including runaway stars leads to twice as many supernovae explosions in regions with gas densities ranging from 1e-5 cm^-3 to 1e-3 cm^-3. This results in more efficient heating of the inter-arm regions, and drives strong galactic winds with mass loading factors boosted by up to one order of magnitude. These outflows produce a more massive and extended multi-phase circumgalactic medium, as well as a population of dense clouds in the halo. Conversely, since less energy and momentum is released in the dense star forming regions, the cold phase of the interstellar medium is less disturbed by feedback effects.

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