A Mushroom-shaped Structure from the Impact of a Cloud with the Galactic Disk

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  • Takahiro Kudoh
  • Shantanu Basu
چکیده

We propose that the mushroom-shaped structure of the Galactic worm GW 123.4–1.5 is created by a cloud collision with the Galactic gas disk. A hydrodynamic simulation shows that a mushroom-shaped structure is created after the cloud crosses the Galactic midplane. The lifetime of the mushroom-shaped structure is of order the dynamical time scale of the disk, ∼ 10 years. We find that the velocities across the cap of the mushroomshaped structure in the simulation are consistent with the observed values. The simulation also predicts a structure on the opposite side of the Galactic plane which is created by the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability after the cloud passes through the disk.

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تاریخ انتشار 2004