Authors: S Schindler A Diaferio
Publish Date: 2008/02/15
Volume: 134, Issue: 1-4, Pages: 363-377
Abstract
There are many processes that can transport gas from the galaxies to their environment and enrich the environment in this way with metals These metal enrichment processes have a large influence on the evolution of both the galaxies and their environment Various processes can contribute to the gas transfer rampressure stripping galactic winds AGN outflows galaxygalaxy interactions and others We review their observational evidence corresponding simulations their efficiencies and their time scales as far as they are known to date It seems that all processes can contribute to the enrichment There is not a single process that always dominates the enrichment because the efficiencies of the processes vary strongly with galaxy and environmental properties
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