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The Galactic Fountain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

F.D. Kahn
F.D. Kahn*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England

Abstract

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The Galactic fountain is driven by the hot inter-cloud medium (ICM). The ICM itself is heated by successive supernova explosions. This process introduces sufficient irregularities to prevent the fountain flow from being smooth. Instead it leads to the formation of a frothy medium above the disk (Avillez, Berry & Kahn 1997). This paper describes the effect of successive supernova explosions, in a rather idealised case. The real case is still more complicated, but the present approach shows why it is so.

Type
Part VIII High-Velocity Clouds, Galactic Halo Models, Observations of the LMC
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 166: The Local Bubble and Beyond , 1997 , pp. 483 - 494
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1998

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