Does the Milky Way launch a large-scale wind?

Astrophysics and Space Science

Volumn 311, Issue 1-3, 2007, Pages 105-110

  Everett, John E ^a,b,c   Zweibel, Ellen G ^a,b,c   Benjamin, Robert A ^d   McCammon, Dan ^b   Rocks, Lindsay ^b   Cox, Donald P ^b   Gallagher, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

^c Laboratory and Astrophysical Plasmas   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN WHITEWATER   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxy: bulge; Galaxy: dynamics; Galaxy: evolution; ISM: outflows

Indexed keywords

EID: 35248877589     PISSN: 0004640X     EISSN: 1572946X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10509-007-9532-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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