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Diffuse Ionized Gas in the β CMa Tunnel
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
Abstract
We present HST observations of the interstellar medium toward the star β CMa known to be located in a low density extension of the Local Bubble. Most of the matter in the sight-line is ionized and clumped in two main components. One of them, as well as one of the components detected toward ϵ CMa, is mostly ionized and only slightly depleted. Their ionization ratios are compatible with collisional ionization at T~25 000 K. These clouds could have been ionized by shocks related to the Local Bubble creation and also responsible of some dust grain sputtering.
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- Part IV Clouds, Ionized Gas, and Particles in the Local ISM
- Information
- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 166: The Local Bubble and Beyond , 1997 , pp. 173 - 176
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- Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1998
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