Modern view of the warm ionized medium
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2015-12-31 v1
Abstract
We review the observational evidence that the warm ionized medium (WIM) is a major and physically distinct component of the Galactic interstellar medium. Although up to ~20% of the faint, high-latitude H-alpha emission in the Milky Way may be scattered light emitted in midplane H II regions, recent scattered light models do not effectively challenge the well-established properties of the WIM.
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@article{arxiv.1211.0369,
title = {Modern view of the warm ionized medium},
author = {A. S. Hill and R. J. Reynolds and L. M. Haffner and K. Wood and G. J. Madsen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.0369},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of IAU Special Session 12: Modern Views of the Interstellar Medium. Two pages, no figures