MusE GAs FLOw and Wind (MEGAFLOW) IV: A two sightline tomography of a galactic wind

Abstract

Galactic outflows are thought to eject baryons back out to the circum-galactic medium (CGM). Studies based on metal absorption lines (MgII in particular) in the spectra of background quasars indicate that the gas is ejected anisotropically, with galactic winds likely leaving the host in a bi-conical flow perpendicular to the galaxy disk. In this paper, we present a detailed analysis of an outflow from a z = 0.7 "green-valley" galaxy (log($M_{\ast }$/${\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }$) = 9.9; SFR = 0.5 ${\mathrm{M}}_{\odot }{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}$) probed by two background sources part of the MUSE Gas Flow and Wind (MEGAFLOW) survey. Thanks to a fortuitous configuration with a background quasar (SDSSJ1358+1145) and a bright background galaxy at $z=1.4$, both at impact parameters of $\approx 15\mathrm{kpc}$, we can - for the first time - probe both the receding and approaching components of a putative galactic outflow around a distant galaxy. We measure a significant velocity shift between the MgII absorption from the two sightlines ($84\pm 17\mathrm{km}{\mathrm{s}}^{-1}$), which is consistent with the expectation from our simple fiducial wind model, possibly combined with an extended disk contribution.

arXiv commentSubmitted to MNRAS. After addressing referee's comments

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