This will require diagnostics of the thermal, dynamic and magnetic properties of the plasma over many scale heights, by using multiple wavelength imaging, spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry.
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It actually decreases exponentially with altitude, dropping by half every or by a factor of 1 / e every, the average scale height of the atmosphere below.
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:The Stanford torus is a mile in diameter, which is less than the scale height of gasses in the Earth's atmosphere ( as Denver residents will attest ).
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As a function of temperature the scale height of Earth's atmosphere is therefore 1.38 / ( 4.808 & times; 9.81 ) ?0 3 = 29.26 m / deg.
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:: : : : : : : Some back-of-the-envelope calculations give Pluto's scale height as being about 15 kilometers; Charon would be about a thousand scale heights away.
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:: : : : : : : Some back-of-the-envelope calculations give Pluto's scale height as being about 15 kilometers; Charon would be about a thousand scale heights away.
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Because oxygen has a much greater scale height than water vapor, the model assumes they can be considered separate layers, oxygen above water, with different characteristic temperatures and opacities.
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It is pushed out of the Galactic plane by magnetic fields and cosmic rays and then becomes Rayleigh Taylor unstable if it is pushed past its normal scale height.
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Let's further assume the density of the atmosphere decreases exponentially with a scale height of 8 km, that atmospheric temperature can be ignored, and that supersonic effects can also be ignored.
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Open clusters are strongly concentrated close to the galactic plane, with a scale height in our galaxy of about 180 light years, compared to a galactic radius of approximately 50, 000 light years.
