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Survey of Fine-Scale Structure in the Far-Infrared Milky Way

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

W.H. Waller
Affiliation:
Hughes STX StarStuff Inc. NASA/GSFC
F. Varosi
Affiliation:
Hughes STX StarStuff Inc. NASA/GSFC
F. Boulanger
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris XI
S.W. Digel
Affiliation:
Hughes STX NASA/GSFC

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What is the general morphology of the diffuse interstellar medium? Is it mostly uniform or clumpy? Are the clumps mostly in the form of spheroidal clouds, sinuous filaments, extended sheets, or discrete shells? And do the clumps or the voids better define the overall structure? By addressing these morphological questions, one can better constrain the dynamical processes that are most responsible for shaping and energizing the ISM.

Type
Part 3. The Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998