Mass injection rates due to supernovae and cloud evaporation in starburst superwinds

被引:21
作者
Hartquist, TW [1 ]
Dyson, JE [1 ]
Williams, RJR [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV LEEDS,DEPT PHYS & ASTRON,LEEDS LS2 9JT,W YORKSHIRE,ENGLAND
关键词
galaxies; individual; (M82); ISM; starburst; hydrodynamics; clouds; stars; mass loss;
D O I
10.1086/304127
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We show that, for reasonable assumptions, conductively driven and ablation-driven evaporation of clouds in the core of the starburst galaxy M82 lead to a rate of mass injection into the superwind that is several times greater than that due to supernovae. This is in harmony with the results of efforts to construct a global superwind model consistent with the X-ray emission of M82. We examine the possibility that the increase of pressure in a starburst causes the burst to develop by inducing gravitational instability of the clouds.
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页码:182 / 185
页数:4
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