Аннотация
Galactic winds are observed in many spiral galaxies with sizes from dwarfs up
to the Milky Way, and they sometimes carry a mass in excess of that of newly
formed stars by up to a factor of ten. Multiple driving processes of such winds
have been proposed, including thermal pressure due to supernova-heating, UV
radiation pressure on dust grains, or cosmic ray (CR) pressure. We here study
wind formation due to CR physics using a numerical model that accounts for CR
acceleration by supernovae, CR thermalization, and advective CR transport. In
addition, we introduce a novel implementation of CR streaming relative to the
rest frame of the gas. We find that CR streaming drives powerful and sustained
winds in galaxies with virial masses M_200 < 10^11 Msun. In dwarf galaxies
(M_200 ~ 10^9 Msun) the winds reach a mass loading factor of ~5, expel ~60 per
cent of the initial baryonic mass contained inside the halo's virial radius and
suppress the star formation rate by a factor of ~5. In dwarfs, the winds are
spherically symmetric while in larger galaxies the outflows transition to
bi-conical morphologies that are aligned with the disc's angular momentum axis.
We show that damping of Alfven waves excited by streaming CRs provides a means
of heating the outflows to temperatures that scale with the square of the
escape speed. In larger haloes (M_200 > 10^11 Msun), CR streaming is able to
drive fountain flows that excite turbulence. For halo masses M_200 > 10^10
Msun, we predict an observable level of H-alpha and X-ray emission from the
heated halo gas. We conclude that CR-driven winds should be crucial in
suppressing and regulating the first epoch of galaxy formation, expelling a
large fraction of baryons, and - by extension - aid in shaping the faint end of
the galaxy luminosity function. They should then also be responsible for much
of the metal enrichment of the intergalactic medium.
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