Mass Injection Rates Due to Supernovae and Cloud Evaporation in Starburst Superwinds
Open Access
- 10 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 482 (1) , 182-185
- https://doi.org/10.1086/304127
Abstract
We show that, for reasonable assumptions, conductively driven and ablation-driven evaporation of clouds in the core of the starburst galaxy M82 lead to a rate of mass injection into the superwind that is several times greater than that due to supernovae. This is in harmony with the results of efforts to construct a global superwind model consistent with the X-ray emission of M82. We examine the possibility that the increase of pressure in a starburst causes the burst to develop by inducing gravitational instability of the clouds.Keywords
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