The DUVET Survey: Resolved Maps of Star Formation Driven Outflows in a Compact, Starbursting Disk Galaxy

Abstract

We study star formation driven outflows in a z0.02 starbursting disk galaxy, IRAS08339+6517, using spatially resolved measurements from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager (KCWI). We develop a new method incorporating a multi-step process to determine whether an outflow should be fit in each spaxel, and then subsequently decompose the emission line into multiple components. We detect outflows ranging in velocity, v out, from 100-600 km s-1 across a range of star formation rate surface densities, SFR, from 0.01-10 M yr-1 kpc-2 in resolution elements of a few hundred parsec. Outflows are detected in 100\% of all spaxels within the half-light radius, and 70\% within r90, suggestive of a high covering fraction for this starbursting disk galaxy. Around 2/3 of the total outflowing mass originates from the star forming ring, which corresponds to <10\% of the total area of the galaxy. We find that the relationship between v out and the SFR, as well as between the mass loading factor, η, and the SFR, are consistent with trends expected from energy-driven feedback models. We study the resolution effects on this relationship and find stronger correlations above a re-binned size-scale of 500 pc. Conversely, we do not find statistically significant consistency with the prediction from momentum-driven winds.

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