Gas stripping by radiation drag from an interstellar cloud

2004/07/13 by Junichi Sato, Jun'ichi Sato, Masayuki Umemura +2 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08176.x

8 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for MNRAS

arxiv created 2004/07/13 · openalex publication_date 2004/09/30 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

If the matter moves in radiation fields, it absorbs the radiation anisotropically in comoving frame and then reemits the radiation isotropically, so that the gas is subject to drag force in proportion to vE, where v is the peculiar velocity and E

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