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What does it mean for cold clouds to be in pressure equilibrium with a diffuse hot medium?
I often read about cold objects (namely cold clouds in the Galactic halo or cold filaments accreting into high-redshift galaxies) being in pressure equilibrium with the diffuse hot ambient gas. What ...