Fine structure in the local interstellar medium.
The authors examine, using K I and Na I absorptions, a generally conical volume out to some 200 pc from the Sun placing constraints on a number of the individual interstellar cold clouds. Using the hypothesis of pressure confinement, they find temperatures in these clouds of ≡70K; typical cloud masses range up to a few hundred solar masses. The
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