The Physics of Galactic Halos: Proceedings of the 156th WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Bad Honnef, Germany, February 1996 - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3055017528 ISBN 13: 9783055017520

Publisher: Wiley VCH, 1997

Synopsis

This book contains new observational results which help to illuminate the hydrodynamic and the magnetohydrodynamic interactions between the disk and the halo of our galaxy and other galaxies. It discusses how the recent discovery of an x–ray corona of our galaxy and the revelation of its x–ray emission′s impact on intergalactic gas clouds has motivated the development of new theoretical models. It explores these are models for galactic winds, galactic fountains, acceleration of low–energy cosmic ray particles in turbulent velocity fields, magnetic reconnection in the boundary layers of colliding interstellar gas clouds, and complete evolutionary scenarios for galactic halos.

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Synopsis

This text contains observational results which help to illuminate the hydrodynamic and the magnetohydrodynamic interactions between the disk and halo of our galaxy and other galaxies from various angles. It covers the discovery of an x-ray corona of our galaxy, and the relation of its x-ray emission to observed impacts of intergalactic gas clouds onto the gaseous galactic disk, which has motivated the development of new theoretical models. There is also information about the popular subject of halo research, the illusive dark matter and the different ways in which dark matter may be hiding from us.

About the Author

Editors' affiliations:
Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch, Institut f?r Astronomie und Astrophysik der Universit?t M?nchen,
Prof. Dr. Ralf-J?rgen Dettmar, Astronomisches Institut der Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum,
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Mebold, Radioastronomisches Institut der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universit?t Bonn,
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Schlickeiser, Max-Planck-Institut f?r Radioastronomie, Bonn.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley VCH
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3055017528
• ISBN 13: 9783055017520
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Lesch Harald, Dettmar Ralf–Jürgen, Mebold Ulrich, Schlickeiser Reinhard