Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991pasp..103..923s&link_type=abstract
(Rice University and University of Texas, Texas-Mexico Conference on Astrophysics: Plasmas in Astrophysics, 3rd, Rice University
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
48
Cooling Flows (Astrophysics), Gas Ionization, Interstellar Gas, Milky Way Galaxy, Nonequilibrium Ionization, One Dimensional Flow, Photoionization, Astronomical Models, Radiant Cooling, Steady State
Scientific paper
The time-dependent nonequilibrium thermal and ionization history is traced of hot optically-thin radiatively-cooling gas in a 1D planar steady-state flow model of the Galactic fountain. The calculation of such a flow which neglects photoionization is found to be unable to simultaneously reproduce the observed C IV, Si IV, and N V column densities through Galactic halo gas. It is shown that, when photoionization is taken into account, a fountain flow can match the observations of both UV absorption and emission lines for a range of ionizing fluxes which depends on the characteristic size of the cooling regions within the flow. What levels of the external photoionizing flux, such as that contributed by Galactic starlight, supernova remnants, and the metagalactic radiation background, can produce agreement with observational results are determined. The ionizing radiation emitted by the cooling gas itself is found to be sufficient to cause the flow to match the observed column densities and line emission.
Benjamin Robert A.
Shapiro Paul R.
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