Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-05-30
Astrophys.J. 613 (2004) 159-179
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for ApJ v613, 60 pages, 15 figures
Scientific paper
10.1086/422861
We model how repeated supernova explosions in high-redshift dwarf starburst galaxies drive superbubbles and winds out of the galaxies. We compute the efficiencies of metal and mass ejection and energy transport from the galactic potentials, including the effect of cosmological infall of external gas. The starburst bubbles quickly blow out of small, high-redshift, galactic disks, but must compete with the ram pressure of the infalling gas to escape into intergalactic space. We show that the assumed efficiency of the star formation rate dominates the bubble evolution and the metal, mass, and energy feedback efficiencies. With star formation efficiency f*=0.01, the ram pressure of infall can confine the bubbles around high-redshift dwarf galaxies with circular velocities v_c>52 km/s. We can expect high metal and mass ejection efficiencies, and moderate energy transport efficiencies in halos with v_c~30-50 km/s and f*~0.01 as well as in halos with v_c~100 km/s and f*>>0.01. Such haloes collapse successively from 1-2 sigma peaks in LambdaCDM Gaussian density perturbations as time progresses. These dwarf galaxies can probably enrich low and high-density regions of intergalactic space with metals to 10^-3-10^-2 Zsun as they collapse at z~8 and z<5 respectively. They also may be able to provide adequate turbulent energy to prevent the collapse of other nearby halos, as well as to significantly broaden Lyman-alpha absorption lines to v_rms~20-40 km/s. We compute the timescales for the next starbursts if gas freely falls back after a starburst, and find that, for star formation efficiencies as low as f*<0.01, the next starburst should occur in less than half the Hubble time at the collapse redshift. This suggests that episodic star formation may be ubiquitous in dwarf galaxies.
Ferrara Andrea
Fujita Akimi
Mac Low Mordecai-Mar
Meiksin Avery
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