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Escape-speed scaling of wind mass loading (ν∝vesc−2​ or vesc−1​)

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If stellar feedback supplies energy e∗​ per unit formed stellar mass, an energy-driven outflow requires νvesc2​/2≲e∗​. Fixed energy coupling therefore suggests mass-loading factor ν∝vesc−2​. A fixed momentum supply p∗​ instead gives νvesc​≲p∗​ and momentum-driven outflow scaling ν∝vesc−1​. These are launch and escape estimates, not universal wind laws; subsequent entrainment, cooling and fallback change the escaping mass.

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