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Interstellar Phases in the Magellanic Clouds
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 May 2016
Abstract
Surveys of λ21-cm absorption in the Magellanic System show that the cool phase of the HI is less abundant in the SMC than in the Milky Way, and may be so also in the LMC. The typical cool cloud temperature is colder than in the Milky Way, 30 to 40 K rather than 60 to 75 K. The lower abundance of cool phase HI can be traced to the lower heavy element abundances in the Magellanic environment. The cooler cloud temperatures are somewhat mysterious.
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- Part 2. Interstellar Medium
- Information
- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 45 - 50
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- Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999
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