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Rahul Kannan
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Winds driven by stellar feedback are an essential part of the galactic ecosystem and are the main mechanism through which low-mass galaxies regulate their star formation. These winds are generally observed to be multi-phase with detections of entrained neutral and molecular gas. They are also thought to enrich the circum-galactic medium around galaxies with metals and dust. This ejected dust encodes information about the integrated star formation and outflow history of the galaxy. It is therefore, important to understand how much dust is entrained and driven out of the disc by galactic winds. Here we demonstrate that stellar feedback is efficient in driving dust-enriched winds and eject enough material to account for the amount of extraplanar dust observed in nearby galaxies. The amount of dust in the wind depends on the sites from where they are launched, with dustier galaxies launching more dust enriched outflows. Moreover, the outflowing cold-dense gas is significantly more dust-enriched than the volume filling hot tenuous material, naturally reproducing the complex multiphase structure of the outflowing wind observed in nearby galaxies. These results provide an important new insight into the dynamics, structure, and composition of galactic winds and their role in determining the dust content of the extragalactic gas in galaxies.
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