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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 900, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aba962
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute - Simons Foundation
- Simons Foundation [CCA 528307]
- NASA ATP grant [NNX17AG26G]
- Simons Foundation through the Flatiron Institute
- NSF [AST-1615955, OAC-1835509]
- NASA High-End Computing (HEC) Program through the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) Division at Ames Research Center
- Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICS-ciE)
- Office of Information Technology's High Performance Computing Center
- National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center - Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- NASA [1001624, NNX17AG26G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Large-scale outflows in star-forming galaxies are observed to be ubiquitous and are a key aspect of theoretical modeling of galactic evolution, the focus of the Simulating Multiscale Astrophysics to Understand Galaxies (SMAUG) project. Gas blown out from galactic disks, similar to gas within galaxies, consists of multiple phases with large contrasts of density, temperature, and other properties. To study multiphase outflows as emergent phenomena, we run a suite of rougly parsec-resolution local galactic disk simulations using the TIGRESS framework. Explicit modeling of the interstellar medium (ISM), including star formation and self-consistent radiative heating plus supernova feedback, regulates ISM properties and drives the outflow. We investigate the scaling of outflow mass, momentum, energy, and metal loading factors with galactic disk properties, including star formation rate (SFR) surface density ( Sigma(SFR) similar to 10(-4) - 1M(circle dot) kpc(-2) yr(-1)), gas surface density (Sigma(gas) similar to 1-100 M-circle dot pc(-2)), and total midplane pressure (or weight P-mid approximate to W similar to 10(3)-10(6) k(B) cm(-3) K). The main components of outflowing gas are mass-delivering cool gas (T similar to 10(4) K) and energy/metal-delivering hot gas (T greater than or similar to 10(6) K). Cool mass outflow rates measured at outflow launch points (one or two scale heights similar to 300 pc-1 kpc) are 1-100 times the SFR (decreasing with Sigma(SFR)), although in massive galaxies most mass falls back owing to insufficient outflow velocity. The hot galactic outflow carries mass comparable to 10% of the SFR, together with 10%-20% of the energy and 30%-60% of the metal mass injected by SN feedback. Importantly, our analysis demonstrates that in any physically motivated cosmological wind model it is crucial to include at least two distinct thermal wind components.
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