{ "id": "2003.02315", "version": "v1", "published": "2020-03-04T20:14:28.000Z", "updated": "2020-03-04T20:14:28.000Z", "title": "A minimum-hypothesis explanation for the Radcliffe Wave: Kelvin-Helmholtz instability", "authors": [ "Robert Fleck" ], "categories": [ "astro-ph.GA" ], "abstract": "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2020-03-04T20:14:28.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "kelvin-helmholtz instability", "minimum-hypothesis explanation", "solar neighborhood-the radcliffe wave-may", "galactic disk", "interstellar clouds" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }