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Joint Commission Meeting on The Violent Interstellar

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The progress in the understanding of the high velocity component of the interstellar medium is reviewed. Emphasis is on the velocities seen outside the plane of the Milky Way, of gas in the galactic halo.

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    Klaas S. De Boer

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    Webster Cash

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    W. Kraushaar, D. Burrows, D. McCammon & W. Sanders

  5. Dept. of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, USA

    R. Genzel

  6. Institut de Radio Astronomie Millimétrique, Grenoble, France

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De Boer, K.S. et al. (1983). Joint Commission Meeting on The Violent Interstellar. In: West, R.M. (eds) Highlights of Astronomy. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7110-3_13

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