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Supernova explosions in a cloudy interstellar medium produce large volumes of hot gas with typical density 3 × 10−3 cm−3 and temperature 5 × 105 K. The evolution of supernova remnants in such a medium differs significantly from the conventional picture due to evaporation of cool clouds by the hot gas inside the remnant. A steady state model of the resulting three-component medium is in reasonable agreement with observations of the interstellar pressure, the OVI density, and the diffuse soft X-ray emission.
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McKee, C.F. (1977). Nature, Origin, and Evolution of the Hot Gas: Interstellar?. In: Van Woerden, H. (eds) Topics in Interstellar Matter. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 70. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1254-6_4
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