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OutLines: Modeling Spectral Lines from Winds, Bubbles, and Outflows

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Sophia R. Flury

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Submitted 11 Dec 2025

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The authors' main claim In each of these contexts, we illustrate how OutLines can illuminate key underlying physics in ways that improve scientific understanding and address important open questions in astronomy, including the key mechanisms in the baryon cycle, the evolution of H II regions and galaxies, and even Lyman continuum escape.

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CitationSophia R. Flury. "OutLines: Modeling Spectral Lines from Winds, Bubbles, and Outflows." arXiv:2512.10650 (2025). https://pith.science/paper/AL4DU2IP
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Studies of kinematics and geometry of outflowing gas rely on modeling features in integrated spectra using empirical quantiles or fitting multiple Gaussian or Voigt profiles. Such methods can miss key underlying physics and even lead to spurious interpretations of observations. To address this problem, we present the public python code OutLines, which predicts spectral emission and absorption line profiles produced by winds, bubbles, and outflows. By design, OutLines is phenomenologically and scale agnostic to bridge the gap between observations and simulations across a broad swath of astrophysics. The OutLines code accounts for differences in velocity field, density profile, and outflow geometries, making OutLines versatile for a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. We demonstrate the wide applicability of OutLines by using the code to model line profiles in an H II region knot, super star clusters, a starburst galaxy, and an AGN. In each of these contexts, we illustrate how OutLines can illuminate key underlying physics in ways that improve scientific understanding and address important open questions in astronomy, including the key mechanisms in the baryon cycle, the evolution of H II regions and galaxies, and even Lyman continuum escape. OutLines will be a critical resource as massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with facilities like WEAVE and 4MOST come online, providing the means to probe feedback with deeper, higher resolution spectroscopy for unprecedented large samples of objects.

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s1 Such methods can miss key underlying physics and even lead to spurious interpretations of observations. background 0.57 0.07 0.08 hedged possibility 0.87
s2 To address this problem, we present the public python code OutLines, which predicts spectral emission and absorption line profiles produced by winds, bubbles, and outflows. contribution 1.00 0.91 0.20 asserted 1.00
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s5 We demonstrate the wide applicability of OutLines by using the code to model line profiles in an H II region knot, super star clusters, a starburst galaxy, and an AGN. contribution 0.72 0.94 0.12 asserted 1.00
s6 In each of these contexts, we illustrate how OutLines can illuminate key underlying physics in ways that improve scientific understanding and address important open questions in astronomy, including the key mechanisms in the baryon cycle, the evolution of H II regions and galaxies, and even Lyman continuum escape. interpretation 0.85 0.80 0.34 asserted 0.96
s7 OutLines will be a critical resource as massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with facilities like WEAVE and 4MOST come online, providing the means to probe feedback with deeper, higher resolution spectroscopy for unprecedented large samples of objects. future work 0.66 0.09 0.16 asserted 0.94

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Studies of kinematics and geometry of outflowing gas rely on modeling features in integrated spectra using empirical quantiles or fitting multiple Gaussian or Voigt profiles. Such methods can miss key underlying physics and even lead to spurious interpretations of observations. To address this problem, we present the public python code OutLines, which predicts spectral emission and absorption line profiles produced by winds, bubbles, and outflows. By design, OutLines is phenomenologically and scale agnostic to bridge the gap between observations and simulations across a broad swath of astrophysics. The OutLines code accounts for differences in velocity field, density profile, and outflow geometries, making OutLines versatile for a wide variety of astrophysical phenomena. We demonstrate the wide applicability of OutLines by using the code to model line profiles in an H II region knot, super star clusters, a starburst galaxy, and an AGN. In each of these contexts, we illustrate how OutLines can illuminate key underlying physics in ways that improve scientific understanding and address important open questions in astronomy, including the key mechanisms in the baryon cycle, the evolution of H II regions and galaxies, and even Lyman continuum escape. OutLines will be a critical resource as massively multiplexed spectroscopic surveys with facilities like WEAVE and 4MOST come online, providing the means to probe feedback with deeper, higher resolution spectroscopy for unprecedented large samples of objects.

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  • To obtain the normalized flux, we fit the starlight continuum within 3 Å of the feature with a third-order polynomial and divide the local spectrum by this fit [ref] .

    VoigtFit: A Python package for Voigt profile fitting · Lyman Continuum Escape from a Super Star Cluster · 1.00

  • corner [ref] , emcee [ref] , matplotlib [ref] , https://mast.stsci.edu/portal/Mashup/Clients/Mast/Portal.html MAST, https://www.nist.gov/pml/atomic-spectra-database NIST/ASD [ref] , numpy [ref] , https://github.com/sflury/OutLines OutLines (this work, see also https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1123826510.5281/zenodo.11238265), PyNeb [ref] , https://www.mso.anu.edu.au/S7/Data_Release_2/ S7 DR2 [ref] , scipy [ref] , github.com/sflury/vygrboi vygrboi

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  • From the $v_0∼300$ rotational velocity of the galaxy [ref] , the outflow must be capable of ejecting material from the host galaxy with the characteristic velocity exceeding the escape velocity by a factor of 3.

    Biconical Outflow in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2992 · Thermal Winds in AGN Radio Lobes · 0.98

  • The accumulation of superbubbles close to the terminal velocity suggests that an outflow forms from these successive events with sufficient speed to exceed the escape velocity ($v_esc≈$100 as implied by the $M_⋆=10^9.3 M_⊙$ from [ref] ).

    Metal-enriched galactic outflows shape the mass-metallicity relationship · Outflow Formation and Blowout in a Starburst Galaxy · 0.82

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  • However, the relatively low wind velocity ($v_∞=215$ , comparable to Voigt modeling of the silicon lines, [ref] , and the “broad” component of nebular lines, [ref] ) and weak $ṗ$ and $Ė$ (marginally non-zero) suggests that mechanical feedback from massive stars is relatively weak or even suppressed.

    Using KCWI to Explore the Chemical Inhomogeneities and Evolution of J1044+0353 · Lyman Continuum Escape from a Super Star Cluster · 0.91

  • While this value is far greater than those previously reported for this object, the full width at half flux (FWHF) given by the 25-75 percentiles is km s$^-1$, consistent with the flux-weighted average found by [ref] .

    Biconical Outflow in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 2992 · Thermal Winds in AGN Radio Lobes · 0.96

  • While those authors do not provide a corresponding physical model, their acceleration power law has a velocity field qualitatively similar to those of [ref] , which assumed cosmic ray driving, and [ref] , which assumed constant momentum and energy deposition into a steady-state wind from a fluid in which it is entrained [ref] , and formally akin to radiative acceleration of expanding clouds [ref] .

    A generalized semi-analytic model for the combined outflow from a cluster of stars with strong stellar winds · Solutions to Wind Equations of Motion · 0.92

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