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Chevalier & Clegg Wind Model

January 8, 2016

We need to come up with a reasonable set of parameter space to explore in studying the environment of the cool material in galactic winds. The Chevalier and Clegg wind model (1985) provides a reasonable fit for the escaping hot wind, which can be sampled at a variety of radii from the galaxy to give a reasonable set of densities, veloicties, and temperatures.

The CC85 model with default parameters is shown below:

And a version with each variable normalized to the value at r=0:

These parameters include a driving region of size R=200 pc, mass input rate ˙M=1.0Myr1, and energy input rate ˙E=1043ergs1.