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Rayleigh Taylor Instabilities in the Interstellar Medium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Marc Lachièze-Rey
Marc Lachièze-Rey*
Affiliation:
Section d'Astrophysique Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay, France

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Parker (1966, 1969) proposed that the interstellar medium could be subjected to instabilities, able to destroy its structure in a time shorter than the galactic evolution time. He emitted the idea that this phenomenon could lead to halo formation, escape of magnetic field and cosmic rays from the galaxy, via some sort of interstellar “bubbles”, and also to cloud formation. He showed then that if the interstellar medium was well represented by a simple horizontal stratified equilibrium model, perturbations would effectively grow and destroy the structure.

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Research Article
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Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 94: Origin of Cosmic Rays , 1981 , pp. 253 - 254
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1981 

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