Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1975
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975ap%26ss..38..167f&link_type=abstract
(International Astronomical Union, Colloquium on UV and X-Ray Spectroscopy of Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, 27th, Cambri
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Energy Dissipation, Gas Heating, High Temperature Gases, Intergalactic Media, Interstellar Gas, Conductive Heat Transfer, Galactic Clusters, Galactic Radiation, Spiral Galaxies, Ultraviolet Radiation, X Ray Astronomy
Scientific paper
The fate of interstellar gas heated by energetic radiation and located far from the galactic plane is considered. It is shown that for plausible heating rates, a very hot corona forms which is separated from the cooler gas in the disk by a conductive boundary layer. For heating rates exceeding a critical value, a galactic wind is set up, as first shown by Mathews and Baker (1971) for elliptical galaxies. Such winds may fill the intracluster space in clusters of galaxies; further heating may drive a cluster wind, as shown by Yahil and Ostriker (1973). It is believed that the flow problem of intracluster gas in the presence of intercluster gas is not yet adequately solved. A variety of observations at X-ray and ultraviolet wavelengths are needed to resolve these questions.
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