Philip F Hopkins
Cosmic-Ray Driven Outflows to Mpc Scales from L* Galaxies
Hopkins, Philip F; Chan, TK; Ji, Suoqing; Hummels, Cameron B; Kereš, Dušan; Quataert, Eliot; Faucher-Giguére, Claude-André
Authors
Tsang Keung Chan tsang.k.chan@durham.ac.uk
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Suoqing Ji
Cameron B Hummels
Dušan Kereš
Eliot Quataert
Claude-André Faucher-Giguére
Abstract
We study the effects of cosmic rays (CRs) on outflows from star-forming galaxies in the circum and intergalactic medium (CGM/IGM), in high-resolution, fully cosmological FIRE-2 simulations (accounting for mechanical and radiative stellar feedback, magnetic fields, anisotropic conduction/viscosity/CR diffusion and streaming, and CR losses). We showed previously that massive (Mhalo≳1011M⊙), low-redshift (z ≲ 1–2) haloes can have CR pressure dominate over thermal CGM pressure and balance gravity, giving rise to a cooler CGM with an equilibrium density profile. This dramatically alters outflows. Absent CRs, high gas thermal pressure in massive haloes ‘traps’ galactic outflows near the disc, so they recycle. With CRs injected in supernovae as modelled here, the low-pressure halo allows ‘escape’ and CR pressure gradients continuously accelerate this material well into the IGM in ‘fast’ outflows, while lower-density gas at large radii is accelerated in situ into ‘slow’ outflows that extend to >Mpc scales. CGM/IGM outflow morphologies are radically altered: they become mostly volume-filling (with inflow in a thin mid-plane layer) and coherently biconical from the disc to >Mpc. The CR-driven outflows are primarily cool (T∼105 K) and low velocity. All of these effects weaken and eventually vanish at lower halo masses (≲1011M⊙) or higher redshifts (z ≳ 1–2), reflecting the ratio of CR to thermal + gravitational pressure in the outer halo. We present a simple analytical model that explains all of the above phenomena. We caution that these predictions may depend on uncertain CR transport physics.
Citation
Hopkins, P. F., Chan, T., Ji, S., Hummels, C. B., Kereš, D., Quataert, E., & Faucher-Giguére, C. (2021). Cosmic-Ray Driven Outflows to Mpc Scales from L* Galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 501(3), 3640-3662. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3690
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Nov 5, 2020 |
Online Publication Date | Nov 28, 2020 |
Publication Date | 2021-03 |
Deposit Date | Jul 1, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Nov 15, 2021 |
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 | 501 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 3640-3662 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa3690 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1273073 |
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