Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Sep 2000
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EXPLORING THE UNIVERSE A Festschrift in Honor of R Giacconi . Held October 1997 in Rome, Italy. Edited by H Gursky (Naval Resear
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
The global gas flows in elliptical galaxies are initiated by stellar mass loss and their diagnostics rely on X-ray observations. The flows are controlled by a number of factors, including supernova heating, the depth and shape of the potential well as determined by the amount and distribution of bright and dark matter, AGN fueling and its feedback effects, interaction with the intracluster medium, and star formation. As a result no steady-state solution can satisfactorily describe the complex, evolutionary behavior of the gas flows, which can experience supersonic wind, subsonic outflow, and inflow phases, and transitions between one such flow regime to another. Having identified heating by Type Ia SN's as one of the key factors controlling the flows, constraints on its evolution with cosmological time are derived by considering the total amount of iron contained in whole clusters of galaxies, while the iron abundance in individual galaxy flows can set constraints on the present rate of SNIa's in ellipticals. The central issue of the problem remains the fate of the gas. It is argued that in one way or another, via SN-driven winds, ram pressure stripping, or AGN violent ejection, most of the gas is ultimately expelled from galaxies thus joining the intracluster medium.
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