Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jun 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986apj...305..669v&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 305, June 15, 1986, p. 669-678.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
123
Abundance, Cosmic Gases, Elliptical Galaxies, Galactic Evolution, Metallicity, Supernovae, Cool Stars, Globular Clusters, Stellar Evolution
Scientific paper
Supernova-driven gas loss during the early evolution of elliptical galaxies is considered as a possible explanation for the correlations among the observed chemical and structural properties of these systems. Mass loss from systems with a chemically homogeneous interstellar medium does not work. It is pointed out that supernova-driven winds are in fact metal-enhanced with respect to the star-forming gas because the metal production of any supernova that drives the wind is directly flushed out of the galaxy. The fraction of the total metal production lost in the wind is thus at least as large as the fraction epsilon(z) of supernovae that power the wind, independent of the total mass loss. As a corollary, the yield of heavy elements that are recycled in the galaxy is reduced by a factor 1 - epsilon(z). Metal-enhanced galactic winds, which can carry away a large fraction of the metal production in spite of a moderate total mass loss, offer a promising explanation for the low metallicities of dwarf elliptical galaxies.
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