NASA NTRS · 19930032148
Heating the warm ionized medium
Abstract
If photoelectric heating by grains within the diffuse ionized component of the interstellar medium is 10 exp -25 ergs/s per H atom, the average value within diffuse H I regions, then grain heating equals or exceeds photoionization heating of the ionized gas. This supplemental heat source would obviate the need for energetic ionizing photons to balance the observed forbidden-line cooling and could be responsible in part for enhanced intensities of some of the forbidden lines.
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Reynolds, R. J., Cox, D. P.. 1992-11-20. Heating the warm ionized medium. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19930032148
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