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| Paper: |
Stellar Feedback: A Multiphase Interstellar Medium and Galactic Outflows |
| Volume: |
419, Galaxy Evolution: Emerging Insights and Future Challenges |
| Page: |
410 |
| Authors: |
Ceverino, D. |
| Abstract: |
I am presenting new results in our ongoing effort of improving the theory of galaxy formation in a ΛCDM Universe. I pay a special attention to the role of supernova explosions and stellar winds in the galaxy assembly. These processes happen at very small scales, they affect the interstellar medium (ISM) at galactic scales and regulate the formation of a whole galaxy. Previous attempts of mimicking these effects in simulations of galaxy formation use very simplified assumptions. I develop a much more realistic prescription for modeling the feedback, which minimizes any ad hoc sub-grid physics. I start with developing high resolution models of the ISM and formulate the conditions required for its realistic functionality: formation of multi-phase medium with hot chimneys, super-bubbles, cold molecular phase, and very slow consumption of gas. Once these effects are resolved in cosmological simulations, galaxy formation proceeds more realistically. For example, I do not have the overcooling problem. The angular momentum problem (resulting in a too massive bulge) is also reduced substantially: the rotation curves are nearly flat. The galaxy formation also becomes more violent. At high redshift, I routinely find substantial gas outflows from star-forming galaxies. I describe several scaling relations between outflow properties and galaxy properties: maximum velocity, mass and kinetic energy versus stellar mass and SFR. The simulations reproduce this picture only if the resolution is very high: better than 70 pc. |
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