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宇宙学模拟盘状星系多相ISM中的压力平衡

Pressure balance in the multiphase ISM of cosmologically simulated disk galaxies

Alexander B. Gurvich, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Alexander J. Richings, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudić, Zachary Hafen, Sarah Wellons, Jonathan Stern, E… 展开作者

Alexander B. Gurvich, Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, Alexander J. Richings, Philip F. Hopkins, Michael Y. Grudić, Zachary Hafen, Sarah Wellons, Jonathan Stern, Eliot Quataert, T. K. Chan, Matthew E. Orr, Dušan Kereš, Andrew Wetzel, Christopher C. Hayward, Sarah R. Loebman, Norman Murray

摘要:

压力平衡在星际介质(ISM)模型中起着核心作用,但在现实的多相ISM中是否以及如何实现压力平衡还没有很好的理解。我们解决这个问题,使用一组消防-2宇宙放大银河系质量盘星系,其中一个多相ISM是自洽的形状重力,冷却和恒星反馈的模拟。我们分析了重力如何决定垂直压力分布以及ISM总压力如何在不同的相和组分(热,分散/湍流和整体流)之间分配。我们表明,平均而言,并与以前更理想化的模拟一致,总ISM压力平衡的重量上覆气体。垂直压力平衡的偏差随着银河系中心半径的增加和平均尺度的减小而增加。不同的阶段是在粗略的总压平衡与彼此,但有很大的偏差,从热的压力平衡,由于在冷,暖阶段,这主导了总压附近的中平面的动力学支持。大流量(例如,流入和喷泉)在几个圆盘尺度高度处是重要的,而来自热气体的热压力在较大高度处占主导地位。总的来说,总的中面压力是很好的预测的磁盘气体的重量,我们表明,它也与恒星形成率表面密度(Sigma_SFR)的线性比例。这些结果支持了Kennicutt-Schmidt关系的出现是因为Sigma_SFR和气体表面密度(Sigma_g)通过ISM中平面压力连接。

英文摘要:

Pressure balance plays a central role in models of the interstellar medium (ISM), but whether and how pressure balance is realized in a realistic multiphase ISM is not yet well understood. We address this question using a set of FIRE-2 cosmological zoom-in simulations of Milky Way-mass disk galaxies, in which a multiphase ISM is self-consistently shaped by gravity, cooling, and stellar feedback. We analyze how gravity determines the vertical pressure profile as well as how the total ISM pressure is partitioned between different phases and components (thermal, dispersion/turbulence, and bulk flows). We show that, on average and consistent with previous more idealized simulations, the total ISM pressure balances the weight of the overlying gas. Deviations from vertical pressure balance increase with increasing galactocentric radius and with decreasing averaging scale. The different phases are in rough total pressure equilibrium with one another, but with large deviations from thermal pressure equilibrium owing to kinetic support in the cold and warm phases, which dominate the total pressure near the midplane. Bulk flows (e.g., inflows and fountains) are important at a few disk scale heights, while thermal pressure from hot gas dominates at larger heights. Overall, the total midplane pressure is well-predicted by the weight of the disk gas, and we show that it also scales linearly with the star formation rate surface density (Sigma_SFR). These results support the notion that the Kennicutt-Schmidt relation arises because Sigma_SFR and the gas surface density (Sigma_g) are connected via the ISM midplane pressure.

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