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29 March 2024
 
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Simulating Metal Mixing of Both Common and Rare Enrichment Sources in a Low Mass Dwarf Galaxy
Andrew Emerick ; Greg L. Bryan ; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low ;
Date 10 Sep 2019
AbstractOne-zone models constructed to match observed stellar abundance patterns have been used extensively to constrain the sites of nucleosynthesis with sophisticated libraries of stellar evolution and stellar yields. The metal mixing included in these models is usually highly simplified, although it is likely to be a significant driver of abundance evolution. In this work we use high-resolution hydrodynamics simulations to investigate how metals from individual enrichment events with varying source energies $E_{ m ej}$ mix throughout the multi-phase interstellar medium (ISM) of a low-mass ($M_{ m gas}=2 imes 10^{6}$ M$_{odot}$), low-metallicity, isolated dwarf galaxy. These events correspond to the characteristic energies of both common and exotic astrophysical sites of nucleosynthesis, including: asymptotic giant branch winds ($E_{ m ej}sim$10$^{46}$ erg), neutron star-neutron star mergers ($E_{ m ej}sim$10$^{49-50}$ erg), supernovae ($E_{ m ej}sim$10$^{51}$ erg), and hypernovae ($E_{ m ej}sim$10$^{52}$ erg). We find the mixing timescales for individual enrichment sources in our dwarf galaxy to be long (100 Myr - 1 Gyr), with a clear trend of increasing homogeneity for the more energetic events. Given these timescales, we conclude that the spatial distribution and frequency of events are important drivers of homogeneity on large scales; rare, low $E_{ m ej}$ events should be characterized by particularly broad abundance distributions. The source energy $E_{ m ej}$ also correlates with the fraction of metals ejected in galactic winds, ranging anywhere from 60% at the lowest energy to 95% for hypernovae. We conclude by examining how the radial position, local ISM density, and global star formation rate influence these results.
Source arXiv, 1909.4695
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