Generating Hot Gas in Simulations of Disk-Galaxy Major Mergers

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2004-02-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0402675v1

Astrophys.J.607:L87-L90,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 2 figures, uses emulateapj.cls, submitted to ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/421905

We report on the merger-induced generation of a shock-heated gas wind and formation of a remnant gas halo in simulations of colliding disk galaxies. The simulations use cosmologically motivated initial conditions and include the effects of radiative cooling, star formation, stellar feedback and the non-adiabatic heating of gas. The non-adiabatic heating, i.e. shocks, generated in the final merger forces gas out of the central region of the merger remnant and into the dark-matter halo. We demonstrate that the amount of heating depends on the size of the progenitor disk galaxy as well as the initial orbit the galaxies are placed on. Based upon these dependencies, we motivate a possible recipe for including this effect in semi-analytic models of galaxy formation.

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