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A minimum-hypothesis explanation for the Radcliffe Wave: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

Published 2020-03-04Version 1

It is suggested that the wavelike character of the recently discovered 2.7-kiloparsec spatially and kinematically coherent complex of interstellar clouds in the solar neighborhood--the Radcliffe Wave--may be the result of a Kelvin-Helmholtz instability arising at the interface between the Galactic disk and non-corotating halo.

Categories: astro-ph.GA

Keywords: kelvin-helmholtz instability, minimum-hypothesis explanation, solar neighborhood-the radcliffe wave-may, galactic disk, interstellar clouds

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