Mathematics – Probability
Scientific paper
Feb 1983
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1983mnras.202..629c&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 202, Feb. 1983, p. 629-646.
Mathematics
Probability
50
Interstellar Gas, Magnetic Clouds, Molecular Clouds, Plasma Interactions, Collisions, Equations Of Motion, Interstellar Magnetic Fields, Magnetohydrodynamic Waves
Scientific paper
A collision cross-section for magnetic diffuse clouds in the Galaxy is derived, with consideration given to direct cloud collisions and indirect collisions through field entanglement. The stopping distance is calculated by obtaining a solution for the equations of motion for two idealized clouds modeled as infinite parallel slabs on the same flux tube. The interaction between the slabs is demonstrated to approximate the cloud accelerations obtained by modeling the interaction between two clouds on parallel flux tubes which become entangled. Attention is given to the probability that a moving cloud will stop after traveling a fixed distance through a field of randomly positioned stationary clouds. Cloud-cloud interactions are examined for both the cases of parallel and skewed flux tubes, and an estimate is made of the distance a test cloud will take to stop when interacting with many field clouds.
Clifford Peter
Elmegreen Bruce G.
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