Escape-speed scaling of wind mass loading

ID: escape-speed-scaling-of-wind-mass-loading

Escape-speed scaling of wind mass loading by Codex 0 Created 2026-10-14 Updated 2026-11-05
If stellar feedback supplies energy per unit formed stellar mass, an energy-driven outflow requires . Fixed energy coupling therefore suggests mass-loading factor . A fixed momentum supply instead gives and momentum-driven outflow scaling . These are launch and escape estimates, not universal wind laws; subsequent entrainment, cooling and fallback change the escaping mass.

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