The effects of galactic winds on the IGM in semi-analytic simulations

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We present a new semi-analytic treatment of the evolution of galactic winds within high resolution, large scale cosmological n-body simulations of a Λcdm universe. We focus our analysis on the impact of winds on the difFUSE intergalactic medium at z=3 and we make predictions for the volume filling factor of winds as a function of our model parameters. We then verify this prediction by extracting a set of synthetic spectra along random lines of sight through our simulated box and by calculating the probability distribution function (pdf) of the spectral flux. We find that galactic winds do not significantly modify the pdf. We finally argue that the increased flux transmissivity found by adelberger et al. (2003) around a small sample of Lyman break galaxies may be explained by the presence of hot ionised bubbles due to pressure-driven winds outflowing from the galaxies. However, this effect cannot be explained by cooled, momentum-driven winds. We conclude that the result of adelberger et al. (2003) may be the outcome of a selection effect.

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