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The Volume Filling Factor of the WIM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Elly M. Berkhuijsen
Elly M. Berkhuijsen*
Affiliation:
Max–Planck–Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany

Abstract

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A compilation of data on the volume filling factor fv of the warm ionized medium (WIM) as a function of the local electron density ne indicates that approximately fv ∝ n −1 e over 4 decades. This result is expected for a fractal ISM.

Type
Part V Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, and Interstellar Bubbles
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 166: The Local Bubble and Beyond , 1997 , pp. 301 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © Springer-Verlag 1998

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