Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-08-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
7 pages LaTeX, no figures, to appear in MNRAS
Scientific paper
We examine the possibility that ram pressure exerted by the galactic wind from the Galaxy could have stripped gas from the Local Group dwarf galaxies, thereby affecting their star formation histories. Whether gas stripping occurs or not depends on the relative magnitudes of two counteracting forces acting on gas in a dwarf galaxy: ram pressure force by the wind and the gravitational binding force by the dwarf galaxy itself. We suggest that the galactic wind could have stripped gas in a dwarf galaxy located within the distance of $R_{c}\simeq 120(r_{s}/1 {kpc})^{3/2} ({\cal E}_{b}/10^{50} {erg})^{-1/2}$ kpc (where $r_{s}$ is the surface radius and ${\cal E}_{b}$ is the total binding energy of the dwarf galaxy, respectively) from the Galaxy within a timescale of Gyr, thereby preventing star formation there. Our result based on this Galactic wind model explains the recent observation that dwarfs located close to the Galaxy experienced star formation only in the early phase of their lifetimes, whereas distant dwarfs are still undergoing star formation. The present star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud can also be explained through our Galactic wind model.
Hirashita Hiroyuki
Kamaya Hideyuki
Mineshige Shin
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