Hot gas in and between galaxies |
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| Authors: | George B Field |
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| Institution: | 1. Center for Astrophysics, Harvard College Observatory and Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, Mass., USA
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| Abstract: | The fate of interstellar gas heated by energetic radiation and far from the galactic plane is considered. It is shown that for plausible heating rates a very hot corona forms, separated from the cooler gas in the disk by a conductive boundary layer. For heating rates exceeding a critical value a galactic wind is set up, as first shown by Mathews and Baker for elliptical galaxies. Such winds may fill the intracluster space in clusters of galaxies; further heating may drive a cluster wind, as shown by Yahil and Ostriker. It is believed that the flow problem of intracluster gas in the presence of intercluster gas is not yet adequately solved. A variety of observations at X-ray and ultraviolet wavelengths are needed to resolve these questions. |
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