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Table 5

Tabulated ratios of the mean critical, leading, and stopping densities (as defined in Sect. 5) to the ISM number density in the Galactic disk.

Galactic component Critical density Leading density Stopping density

Thin-disk 36.2 14.4 10.2
Thick-disk 179.4 128.7 93.4
The whole disk 88.7 55.0 39.4

BSS 60.0 35.0 10.0

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