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| | EUVE Science Highlights - January 20, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06) |
 | | Contributed by Dr. Burkhard Wolff, University of Kiel (Germany) Based on paper: Wolff, B., D. Koester, and R. Lallement, "Evidence for an Ionization Gradient in the Local Interstellar Medium: EUVE Observations of White Dwarfs", A&A, 346, 969, 1999. |
 | | The assumption that the Local Fluff is ionized by epsilon CMa - which is located at (l,b)=(240,-11) and determines the EUV radiation field at lambda > 540 Å (Vallerga, 1998) - is consistent with observed gradient in H ionization. |
 | | The stellar EUV radiation is too weak to cause such ionization, and that radiation from the interface between the Local Fluff and Hot Bubble may be important (Slavin & Frisch, 1998). |
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