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astro-ph1998
Superbubbles in the Magellanic Clouds
M. S. Oey
Superbubbles that result from the stellar winds and supernovae of OB associations probably play a fundamental role in the structure and energetics of the ISM in star-forming galaxi…
astro-ph1998
The Size Distribution of Superbubbles in the Interstellar Medium
M. S. Oey, C. J. Clarke
We use the standard, adiabatic shell evolution to predict the size distribution N(R) for populations of SN-driven superbubbles in a uniform ISM. We derive N(R) for simple cases of…