Bibcode
DOI
Tenorio-Tagle, Guillermo; Silich, Sergiy; Muñoz-Tuñón, Casiana
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 597, Issue 1, pp. 279-288.
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2003
Journal
Citations
49
Refereed citations
38
Description
Here we present two-dimensional hydrodynamic calculations of free
expanding supergalactic winds, taking into consideration strong
radiative cooling. Our main premise is that supergalactic winds are
powered by collections of super-star clusters, each of which is a source
of a high-metallicity supersonic diverging outflow. The interaction of
winds from neighboring super-star clusters is shown here to lead to a
collection of stationary oblique shocks and crossing shocks, able to
structure the general outflow into a network of dense and cold,
kiloparsec long filaments that originate near the base of the outflow.
The shocks also lead to extended regions of diffuse soft X-ray emission
and, furthermore, to channel the outflow with a high degree of
collimation into the intergalactic medium.