Link between the properties of circumgalactic outflows and the recent star formation history of their host galaxies

@misc{pessa2026link,
  title = {{Link between the properties of circumgalactic outflows and the recent star formation history of their host galaxies}},
  author = {Ismael Pessa and Lutz Wisotzki and Constanza Muñoz López and Tanya Urrutia and Ramona Augustin and Thierry Contini and Yucheng Guo and Daria Kozlova and Haruka Kusakabe and Sowgat Muzahid and John Pharo},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.28752},
  eprint = {2610.28752},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28752},
}

TY  - UNPB
TI  - Link between the properties of circumgalactic outflows and the recent star formation history of their host galaxies
AU  - Ismael Pessa
AU  - Lutz Wisotzki
AU  - Constanza Muñoz López
AU  - Tanya Urrutia
AU  - Ramona Augustin
AU  - Thierry Contini
AU  - Yucheng Guo
AU  - Daria Kozlova
AU  - Haruka Kusakabe
AU  - Sowgat Muzahid
AU  - John Pharo
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/20
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.28752
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.28752
AB  - Galactic outflows play a key role in galaxy evolution, yet their connection to the star formation history of their host galaxies remains poorly constrained. Building on previous work modeling extended Mg II emission of galaxies observed with VLT/MUSE to infer outflow properties, we investigate how these properties depend on the recent SFH. We derive non-parametric SFHs by fitting spectroscopic and photometric data with linear combinations of single stellar population models, and compute star formation rates over different timescales sensitive to recent stochastic bursts. We find moderate correlations between these SFRs (and sSFRs) and the kinematic properties of the outflows, namely maximum velocity and radial acceleration rate. Such correlations are not recovered using SFR tracers based on [O II] luminosity or parametric SFHs, highlighting the importance of capturing bursty star formation on timescales consistent with the traveling time of ejected gas into the circumgalactic medium. Using the extent and kinematics of the Mg II halos, we estimate each galaxy's outflow launching time and compute the SFR averaged over the relevant timescale. We identify a correlation between this SFR and the maximum outflow velocity, although it is not significantly stronger than those obtained using fixed averaging timescales. This suggests that the properties of Mg II halos are shaped by a series of star formation events rather than by a single dominant burst. Lastly, we find faster outflows in galaxies whose recent star formation is dominated by one or a few concentrated episodes, whereas galaxies with star formation spread more evenly over time exhibit slower outflows. These results indicate that the circumgalactic medium acts as a dynamical archive of recent star formation, linking bursty galaxy growth to outflow kinematics and providing a direct observational constraint on feedback models.
ER  -