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Boettcher, Erin; Zweibel, Ellen G.; Gallagher III, J. S.; Benjamin, Robert A.
The Astrophysical journal, 12/2016, Letnik: 832, Številka: 2Journal Article
ABSTRACT The observed scale heights of extraplanar diffuse ionized gas (eDIG) layers exceed their thermal scale heights by a factor of a few in the Milky Way and other nearby edge-on disk galaxies. Here, we test a dynamical equilibrium model of the eDIG layer in NGC 891, where we ask whether the thermal, turbulent, magnetic field, and cosmic-ray pressure gradients are sufficient to support the layer. In optical emission-line spectroscopy from the SparsePak integral field unit on the WIYN 3.5 m telescope, the H emission in position-velocity space suggests that the eDIG is found in a ring between galactocentric radii of , where . We find that the thermal ( km s−1) and turbulent ( km s−1) velocity dispersions are insufficient to satisfy the hydrostatic equilibrium equation given an exponential electron scale height of . Using a literature analysis of radio continuum observations from the CHANG-ES survey, we demonstrate that the magnetic field and cosmic-ray pressure gradients are sufficient to stably support the gas at kpc if the cosmic rays are sufficiently coupled to the system ( ). Thus, a stable dynamical equilibrium model is viable only if the eDIG is found in a thin ring around R = 8 kpc, and nonequilibrium models such as a galactic fountain flow are of interest for further study.
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