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The Evaporation of Nearby Clouds and the Soft X-ray Background

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Jonathan D. Slavin
Jonathan D. Slavin*
Affiliation:
NASA/Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA

Abstract

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In recent years the nature of the low density clouds within the Local Bubble has been increasingly well characterized. These clouds, including the one which surrounds the solar system, are embedded in the hot gas and therefore should be evaporating via thermal conduction. If several evaporation fronts exist within the Local Bubble, the emissivity and spectrum of the hot gas is significantly different from a single temperature, equilibrium ionization plasma. We explore models in which the the temperature, density and ionization in the hot gas are influenced by cloud evaporation and compare the results with the observed Soft X-ray Background.

Type
Part IV Clouds, Ionized Gas, and Particles in the Local ISM
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 166: The Local Bubble and Beyond , 1997 , pp. 169 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1998

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