Robert A. Crain
Galactic outflow rates in the EAGLE simulations
Crain, Robert A.; Bower, Richard G.; Schaye, Joop; Mitchell, Peter D.
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Richard G. Bower
Joop Schaye
Peter D. Mitchell
Abstract
We present measurements of galactic outflow rates from the EAGLE suite of cosmological simulations. We find that gas is removed from the interstellar medium (ISM) of central galaxies with a dimensionless mass loading factor that scales approximately with circular velocity as V−3/2c in the low-mass regime where stellar feedback dominates. Feedback from active galactic nuclei (AGN) causes an upturn in the mass loading for halo masses >1012 M⊙. We find that more gas outflows through the halo virial radius than is removed from the ISM of galaxies, particularly at low redshift, implying substantial mass loading within the circum-galactic medium (CGM). Outflow velocities span a wide range at a given halo mass/redshift, and on average increase positively with redshift and halo mass up to M200 ∼ 1012 M⊙. Outflows exhibit a bimodal flow pattern on circum-galactic scales, aligned with the galactic minor axis. We present a number of like-for-like comparisons to outflow rates from other recent cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, and show that comparing the propagation of galactic winds as a function of radius reveals substantial discrepancies between different models. Relative to some other simulations, EAGLE favours a scenario for stellar feedback where agreement with the galaxy stellar mass function is achieved by removing smaller amounts of gas from the ISM, but with galactic winds that then propagate and entrain ambient gas out to larger radii.
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Crain, R. A., Bower, R. G., Schaye, J., & Mitchell, P. D. (2020). Galactic outflow rates in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 484(3), 3971-3997. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa938
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Mar 31, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Apr 9, 2020 |
Publication Date | May 31, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Apr 10, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 29, 2024 |
Journal | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |
Print ISSN | 0035-8711 |
Electronic ISSN | 1365-2966 |
Publisher | Royal Astronomical Society |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 484 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 3971-3997 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa938 |
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