Warm gas accretion onto the Galaxy：（温暖的气体吸积到星系）.pdfVIP

The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context c Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 254, 2008 2008 International Astronomical Union J. Andersen, J. Bland-Hawthorn B. Nordstrom, eds. DOI: 00.0000/X000000000000000X Warm gas accretion onto the Galaxy J. Bland-Hawthorn School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia, NSW 2006 email: jbh@.au Abstract. We present evidence that the accretion of warm gas onto the Galaxy today is at least as important as cold gas accretion. For more than a decade, the source of the bright Hα emission (up to 750 mR†) along the Magellanic Stream has remained a mystery. We present 8 a hydrodynamical model that explains the known properties of the Hα emission and provides 0 new insights on the lifetime of the Stream clouds. The upstream clouds are gradually disrupted 0 due to their interaction with the hot halo gas. The clouds that follow plough into gas ablated 2 from the upstream clouds, leading to shock ionisation at the leading edges of the downstream clouds. Since the following clouds also experience ablation, and weaker Hα (100−200 mR) is v o quite extensive, a disruptive cascade must be operating along much of the Stream. In order to ◦ N light up much of the Stream as observed, it must have a small angle of attack (≈ 20 ) to the halo, and this may already find support in new HI observations. Another prediction is that the Balmer 5 ratio (Hα/Hβ) will be substantially en