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中性氢强度结构的物理本质

The Physical Nature of Neutral Hydrogen Intensity Structure

S. E. Clark, J. E. G. Peek, M. -A. Miville-Deschênes

摘要:

我们调查的物理性质的结构中看到的通道图观测21厘米中性氢(HI)的排放。HI强度图显示了与弥漫星际介质(ISM)中的环境磁场很好地对准的突出的线性结构。一些文献认为,这些结构是“速度焦散线”,波动的湍流速度场的印记,而不是三维密度结构的ISM。我们测试这一假设通过堆叠探针的密度场-宽带远红外(FIR)发射和集成HI列密度(NHI)-在线性HI强度结构的位置。我们发现,HI强度功能是真正的密度结构,而不是速度焦散。我们概括的调查,所有的小尺度结构在HI通道地图,并分析这种相关性作为速度通道宽度的函数,发现没有可测量的贡献速度焦散到HI通道地图的排放。此外,我们发现,小规模的HI通道映射结构具有升高的FIR/NHI,这意味着这种发射起源于比周围材料更冷,更致密的ISM相。这些数据是一致的多相扩散ISM中,小规模的结构在狭窄的HI通道地图优先冷中性介质(CNM)是各向异性分布和对齐的本地磁场。窄HI通道的浅空间功率谱(SPS)通常归因于速度焦散。我们推测,而不是小规模的结构和窄线宽典型的CNM解释观察到的SPS和通道宽度之间的关系。

英文摘要:

We investigate the physical properties of structures seen in channel map observations of 21-cm neutral hydrogen (HI) emission. HI intensity maps display prominent linear structures that are well aligned with the ambient magnetic field in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). Some literature hold that these structures are "velocity caustics", fluctuations imprinted by the turbulent velocity field, and are not three-dimensional density structures in the ISM. We test this hypothesis by stacking probes of the density field -- broadband far infrared (FIR) emission and the integrated HI column density (NHI) -- at the locations of linear HI intensity structures. We find that the HI intensity features are real density structures and not velocity caustics. We generalize the investigation to all small-scale structure in HI channel maps, and analyze this correlation as a function of velocity channel width, finding no measurable contribution from velocity caustics to the HI channel map emission. Further, we find that small-scale HI channel maps structures have elevated FIR/NHI, implying that this emission originates from a colder, denser phase of the ISM than the surrounding material. The data are consistent with a multi-phase diffuse ISM in which small-scale structures in narrow HI channel maps are preferentially cold neutral medium (CNM) that is anisotropically distributed and aligned with the local magnetic field. The shallow spatial power spectrum (SPS) of narrow HI channels is often attributed to velocity caustics. We conjecture instead that the small-scale structure and narrow linewidths typical of CNM explain the observed relationship between the SPS and channel width.

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