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Journal article

Entropy Driven Winds: Outflows and Fountains Lifted Gently by Buoyancy

Abstract

ABSTRACT We present a new theoretical framework for using entropy to understand how outflows driven by supernovae are launched from disc galaxies: via continuous, buoyant acceleration through the circumgalactic medium (CGM). When young star clusters detonate supernovae in the interstellar medium (ISM) of a galaxy, they generate hot, diffuse bubbles that push on the surrounding ISM and evaporate that ISM into their interiors. …

Authors

Keller BW; Kruijssen JMD; Wadsley JW

Journal

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 493, No. 2, pp. 2149–2170

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Publication Date

April 1, 2020

DOI

10.1093/mnras/staa380

ISSN

0035-8711