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5.2. Molecular gas and nuclear outflows

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Judith A. Irwin
Judith A. Irwin*
Affiliation:
Queen's University Dept. of Physics, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6

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There is now overwhelming evidence that spiral galaxies can experience nuclear outflows, from radio lobes perpendicular to the disks of edge-on galaxies (Hummel et al. 1983), to optical ionization cones (see list in Wilson and Tsvetanov 1994), to spectacular X-ray emission extending many kpc beyond the disk (e.g. Dahlem et al. 1996). These observations indicate that hot and/or energetic components of the ISM can escape away from the plane of the galaxy from their origin in the nuclear vicinity.

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Part II. Nuclear Interstellar Medium
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 184: The Central Regions of the Galaxy and Galaxies , 1998 , pp. 213 - 214
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Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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