Galactic fields and fountains

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Sep 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992iraj...20..278k&link_type=abstract

Irish Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0021-1052), vol. 20, no. 4, p. 278-282.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Interstellar Gas, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Supernovae, Dynamo Theory, Interstellar Matter, Magnetic Field Configurations, Magnetic Flux, Milky Way Galaxy

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Supernovae of type II occur in the galactic disk at the rate of about three per century. The interstellar gas lying within some 80 pc is disturbed by a supernova explosion. In each event a mass of some 126 solar masses gains so much entropy that it stays hot long enough to escape from the galactic disk. The combined effect of many explosions produces a fountain flow, which can rise to some 4 kpc, and then returns to the plane. Over a period of about 520 million years all the interstellar matter becomes involved in this flow. The interstellar medium is a good conductor of electricity, and is frozen to the magnetic lines of force to which it is linked. The fountain flow, and the subsequent return to the galactic disk, provide a means by which the field is redistributed among the interstellar medium and have an important effect on any possible dynamo mechanism.

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