Localized magnetic reconnection as a cause of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas in the Galactic halo

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 296, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-172

  Birk, G T ^a   Lesch, H ^a   Neukirch, T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: haloes; Galaxies: ISM; Galaxy: halo; Magnetic fields; Plasmas

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GASES; MAGNETISM; MAGNETOPLASMA; STARS;

GALACTIC HALO; GALAXIES: ISM; GALAXY:HALO; IONIZED GAS; LOCALISED; MAGNETIC ENERGIES; MAGNETIC RECONNECTIONS; MAGNETIC-FIELD; TIME-SCALES;

IONIZATION OF GASES;

EID: 0000207452     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01376.x     Document Type: Article

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