Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages in AASTEX LaTeX with 14 figures; accepted by Astrophysical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/306754
We study the complete dynamical evolution of hot interstellar gas in massive elliptical galaxies born into a simple flat universe beginning with an overdense perturbation. Within the turn-around radius dark matter flows in a self-similar fashion into a stationary Navarro-Frenk-White halo and the baryonic gas shocks. After a few gigayears, when enough gas accumulates within the accretion shock, the de Vaucouleurs stellar system is constructed and the energy from Type II supernovae is released. The stars and dark halo are matched to NGC 4472. Gas continues to enter the galaxy by secondary infall and by stellar mass loss based on a Salpeter IMF. After about 13 Gyrs the temperature and density distribution in the hot gas agree quite well with the hot interstellar gas observed in NGC 4472. As a result of supernova-driven outflow, the present day baryonic fraction has a deep minimum in the outer galactic halo. When relatively gas-rich, X-ray luminous models are spatially truncated at early times, simulating tidal events that may have occurred during galaxy group dynamics, the current locus of truncated models lies just along the $L_x$, X-ray size correlation among well-observed ellipticals, providing another striking confirmation of our simple model of elliptical evolution.
Brighenti Fabrizio
Mathews William G.
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