Multi-phase outflows in post starburst E+A galaxies -- I. General sample properties and the prevalence of obscured starbursts

Understand

E+A galaxies are believed to be a short phase connecting major merger ULIRGs with red and dead elliptical galaxies.

• Their optical spectrum suggests a massive starburst that was quenched abruptly, and their bulge-dominated morphologies with tidal tails suggest that they are merger remnants.
• AGN-driven winds are believed to be one of the processes responsible for the sudden quenching of star formation and for the expulsion and/or destruction of the remaining molecular gas.
• Little is known about AGN-driven winds in this short-lived phase.