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Distribution and Temperature of Interstellar Electron Gas

A Corrigendum to this article was published on 29 November 1969

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A thick disk distribution for electrons is suggested by several different kinds of observational evidence.

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BRIDLE, A., VENUGOPAL, V. Distribution and Temperature of Interstellar Electron Gas. Nature 224, 545–547 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224545a0

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