Reynolds Layers in Nearby Galaxies: The Face-On View

Beckman, J. E.; Zurita, A.
Bibliographical reference

How Does the Galaxy Work? A Galactic Tertulia with Don Cox and Ron Reynolds. Edited by Emilio J. Alfaro, Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain; Enrique Pérez, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain; José Franco, Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, México. ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE LIBRARY Volume 315. ISBN 1-4020-2619-6 (HB); ISBN 1-4020-2620-X (e-book). Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2004, p.88

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2004
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We present observational evidence, from Hαin face-on galaxies, which strongly favours the hypothesis that escaping photons from H II regions are the basic cause of the ionization of the diffuse ionized gas in galaxy discs, and by implication are the chief cause of the Reynolds layer in the Milky Way, and refer the reader to models based on these observations which go further, geometrically, to confirm this conclusion.