Bibcode
Katz, H.; Desmond, H.; Lelli, F.; McGaugh, S.; Di Cintio, A.; Brook, C.; Schombert, J.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 480, Issue 4, p.4287-4301
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11
2018
Citations
10
Refereed citations
8
Description
In a ΛCDM cosmology, galaxy formation is a globally inefficient
process: it is often the case that far fewer baryons are observed in
galaxy discs than expected from the cosmic baryon fraction. The location
of these `missing baryons' is unclear. By fitting halo profiles to the
rotation curves of galaxies in the SPARC data set, we measure the
`missing baryon' mass for individual late-type systems. Assuming that
haloes initially accrete the cosmological baryon fraction, we show that
the maximum energy available from supernovae is typically not enough to
completely eject these `missing baryons' from a halo, but it is often
sufficient to heat them to the virial temperature. The energy available
from supernovae has the same scaling with galaxy mass as the energy
needed to heat or eject the `missing baryons', indicating that the
coupling efficiency of the feedback to the ISM may be constant with
galaxy virial mass. We further find that the energy available from
supernova feedback is always enough to convert a primordial cusp into a
core and has magnitude consistent with what is required to heat the
`missing baryons' to the virial temperature. Taking a census of the
baryon content of galaxies with 109 <
Mvir/M⊙ < 1012 reveals that
{˜ }86{{ per cent}} of baryons are likely to be in a hot phase
surrounding the galaxies and possibly observable in the X-ray, {˜
}7{{ per cent}} are in the form of cold gas, and {˜ }7{{ per
cent}} are in stars.
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