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HI调查的高斯分解。五、寻找非常冷的云

Gaussian decomposition of HI surveys. V. Search for very cold clouds

Urmas Haud

摘要:

在本系列的前几篇论文中,我们已经将莱顿-阿根廷-波恩(LAB)数据库的所有HI 21厘米线轮廓分解为高斯分量,并研究了所获得的高斯分布。现在,我们感兴趣的是从一般的数据库中分离的组成部分的“云”的紧密间隔的类似高斯。在本文中,我们描述了新的云发现算法。为了分离相似高斯云,我们从五维(经度,纬度,速度,高斯宽度和高度)空间中的单链接层次聚类过程开始,但做了一些修改,以适应大量的组件。我们还使用的要求,每个云可以表示在任何观察到的天空位置,只有一个高斯,并考虑到合并云的全球属性的相似性。作为一个测试,我们应用该算法来寻找最西HI 21厘米线分量的云。利用全天空搜索冷云,我们很容易检测到已知最冷的HI云,并证明它们实际上是一条狭长的冷云带的一部分。我们模拟这些云作为一个平面的气体环的一部分,推导出它们的空间位置,并讨论它们的关系,在太阳附近的超新星壳。我们的结论是,该算法令人满意地解决了提出的任务。我们猜想,对HI最西端21厘米谱线分量的研究可能是寻找太阳附近中性气体结构的一个有用工具。

英文摘要:

In the previous papers of this series, we have decomposed into Gaussian components all the HI 21-cm line profiles of the Leiden-Argentina-Bonn (LAB) database, and studied statistical distributions of the obtained Gaussians. Now we are interested in separation from the general database of the components the "clouds" of closely spaced similar Gaussians. In this paper we describe the new cloud-finding algorithm. To separate the clouds of similar Gaussians, we start with the single-link hierarchical clustering procedure in five-dimensional (longitude, latitude, velocity, Gaussian width and height) space, but make some modifications to accommodate it to the large number of components. We also use the requirement that each cloud may be represented at any observed sky position by only one Gaussian and take into account the similarity of global properties of the merging clouds. As a test, we apply the algorithm for finding the clouds of the narrowest HI 21-cm line components. Using the full sky search for cold clouds, we easily detect the coldest known HI clouds and demonstrate that actually they are a part of a long narrow ribbon of cold clouds. We model these clouds as a part of a planar gas ring, deduce their spatial placement, and discuss their relation to supernova shells in the solar neighborhood. We conclude that the proposed algorithm satisfactorily solves the posed task. We guess that the study of the narrowest HI 21-cm line components may be a useful tool for finding the structure of neutral gas in solar neighborhood.

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