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 Title: Simulation of radiation-driven winds from disc galaxies Authors: Chattopadhyay, IndranilSharma, MahavirNath, Biman B.Ryu, Dongsu Keywords: galaxies: formationintergalactic mediumgalaxies: starburst Issue Date: Jul-2012 Publisher: Wiley Interscience for the RAS Citation: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, Vol. 423, p. 2153-2161 Abstract: We present 2-D hydrodynamic simulation of rotating galactic winds driven by radiation. We study the structure and dynamics of the cool and/or warm component($T \simeq 10^4$ K) which is mixed with dust. We have taken into account the total gravity of a galactic system that consists of a disc, a bulge and a dark matter halo. We find that the combined effect of gravity and radiation pressure from a realistic disc drives the gas away to a distance of $\sim 5$ kpc in $\sim 37$ Myr for typical galactic parameters. The outflow speed increases rapidly with the disc Eddington parameter $\Gamma_0(=\kappa I/(2 c G \Sigma)$) for $\Gamma_0 \ge 1.5$. We find that the rotation speed of the outflowing gas is $\lesssim 100$ km s$^{-1}$. The wind is confined in a cone which mostly consist of low angular momentum gas lifted from the central region. Description: Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2289/4763 ISSN: 0035-87111365-2966 (Online) Alternative Location: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012MNRAS.tmp.3046Chttp://arxiv.org/abs/1204.1133http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21027.x Copyright: 2012 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Society. Appears in Collections: Research Papers (A&A)

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