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arXiv 1909.09647astro-ph.GA
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小尺度HI通道图结构是冷的:来自高银河系天体Na I吸收的证据

Small-Scale HI Channel Map Structure is Cold: Evidence from Na I Absorption at High Galactic Latitudes

J. E. G. Peek, S. E. Clark

摘要:

中性氢辐射的空间分布是研究星际介质物理的重要手段。在H I通道图中的小尺度结构通常被假定为探测速度场而不是真实的密度结构。在这项工作中,我们使用高分辨率的GALFA-H I观测和SDSS的50,985个类星体光谱直接测试了这一假设。我们测量了星际Na I D $_1$和Na I D $_2$吸收的等效宽度,并有力地得出结论:它们对H I中小尺度结构的柱密度的依赖性比对大尺度H I结构或总H I柱的依赖性更强。这与小尺度通道图结构由速度拥挤驱动的假设不一致。相反,这些数据支持这样的解释,即这种发射结构主要起源于寒冷、致密的星际物质,与寒冷的中性介质一致。

英文摘要:

The spatial distribution of neutral hydrogen (H I) emission is a powerful probe of interstellar medium physics. The small-scale structure in H I channel maps is often assumed to probe the velocity field rather than real density structures. In this work we directly test this assumption, using high-resolution GALFA-H I observations and 50,985 quasar spectra from SDSS. We measure the equivalent widths of interstellar Na I D$_1$ and Na I D$_2$ absorption, and robustly conclude that they depend more strongly on the column density of small-scale structure in H I than on either the large-scale H I structure or the total H I column. This is inconsistent with the hypothesis that small-scale channel map structure is driven by velocity crowding. Instead, the data favor the interpretation that this emission structure predominantly originates in cold, dense interstellar material, consistent with a clumpy cold neutral medium.

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