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Table 4

Galactic nucleus model parameters.

ISM n(e) n(H) n(H2 ) T kin ηa Mass
Component cm-3 cm-3 cm-3 K M

HIM 0.001 0 0 105 0.15 3 × 102
WIM 10 0 0 8000 0.80 106
H i clouds 0.1 100 0 100 0.03 5 × 105
CO clouds 0 0 104 50 0.0125 6 × 107
PDR 3.5 0 103 100 0.002b 2 × 106
DIS 20 0 0 8000 0.003 104

Notes.

(a)

The volume filling factor η is dimensionless, and the sum for the various does not add up exactly to one because of roundoff.

(b)

We consider a range of values from 0.001 to 0.003, with 0.002 in the Table representing an intermediate value.

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