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Absorption spectra from galactic wind models: a framework to link PLUTO simulations to TRIDENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2023

Benedetta Casavecchia Open the ORCID record for Benedetta Casavecchia [Opens in a new window] ,
Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán Open the ORCID record for Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán [Opens in a new window] ,
Marcus Brüggen  and
Fabrizio Brighenti
Benedetta Casavecchia
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/2, 40122, Bologna, Italy email: benedett.casavecchia@studio.unibo.it Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
Wladimir E. Banda-Barragán
Affiliation:
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
Marcus Brüggen
Affiliation:
Hamburger Sternwarte, Universität Hamburg, Gojenbergsweg 112, D-21029 Hamburg, Germany
Fabrizio Brighenti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Via Gobetti 93/2, 40122, Bologna, Italy email: benedett.casavecchia@studio.unibo.it
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Galactic winds probe how feedback regulates the mass and metallicity of galaxies. Galactic winds have cold gas, which is mainly observable with absorption and emission lines. Theoretically studying how absorption lines are produced requires numerical simulations and realistic starburst UV backgrounds. We use outputs from a suite of 3D PLUTO simulations of wind-cloud interactions to first estimate column densities and temperatures. Then, to create synthetic spectra, we developed a python interface to link our PLUTO simulations to TRIDENT via the YT-package infrastructure. We produce UV backgrounds accounting for the star formation rate of starbursts. For this purpose, we use fluxes generated by STARBURST99, which are then processed through CLOUDY to create customised ion tables. Such tables are subsequently read into TRIDENT to generate absorption spectra. We explain how the various packages and tools communicate with each other to create ion spectra consistent with spectral energy distributions of starburst systems.

Keywords

hydrodynamicsmethods: numericalGalaxy: haloISM: evolution
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Contributed Paper
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Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 16 , Symposium S362: The Predictive Power of Computational Astrophysics as a Discovery Tool , June 2020 , pp. 56 - 63
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