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arXiv 2012.03160astro-ph.GA
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太阳附近暖中性介质的热力和湍流性质

Thermal and turbulent properties of the Warm Neutral Medium in the solar neighborhood

Antoine Marchal, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes

摘要:

从弥漫的暖中性介质(WNM)到稠密的冷中性介质(CNM)的转变是分子云形成的初始条件。在WNM中的湍流级联的属性,描述这种辐射冷凝过程是必不可少的,仍然难以捉摸的部分原因是难以绘制出每个H I热阶段的结构和运动学。在这里,我们提出了一个21厘米的高光谱数据立方体从GHIGLS HI调查的贡献WNM提取使用ROHSA,高斯分解工具,包括空间正则化的分析。利用3D尘埃消光图信息估计WNM发射的距离和体积。使用两种技术,一个基于列密度和质心速度场的统计特性,另一个基于作为湍流运动探针的CNM结构的相对运动,对WNM的多普勒线宽的热和湍流的贡献被解开。我们发现,这里采样的WNM体积位于局部气泡的外缘,显示出与太阳附近典型的加热和冷却过程的预期值一致的热特性。WNM具有亚/跨音速湍流的特性,在这里探测的最大尺度(l = 130 pc)下的湍流马赫数为Ms = 0.87 +- 0.15,密度对比度为0.6 +- 0.2,速度和密度功率谱与k-11/3相一致。低马赫数的WNM提供动力学条件,允许冷凝模式的热不稳定性(TI)自由增长,形成CNM结构,如理论预测的。

英文摘要:

The transition from the diffuse warm neutral medium (WNM) to the dense cold neutral medium (CNM) is what set the initial conditions to the formation of molecular clouds. The properties of the turbulent cascade in the WNM, essential to describe this radiative condensation process, have remained elusive in part due to the difficulty to map out the structure and kinematics of each H I thermal phases. Here we present an analysis of a 21 cm hyper-spectral data cube from the GHIGLS HI survey where the contribution of the WNM is extracted using ROHSA, a Gaussian decomposition tool that includes spatial regularization. The distance and volume of the WNM emission is estimated using 3D dust extinction map information. The thermal and turbulent contributions to the Doppler line width of the WNM were disentangled using two techniques, one based on the statistical properties of the column density and centroid velocity fields, and another on the relative motions of CNM structures as a probe of turbulent motions. We found that the volume of WNM sampled here, located at the outer edge of the Local Bubble, shows thermal properties in accordance with expected values for heating and cooling processes typical of the Solar neighbourhood. The WNM has the properties of sub/trans-sonic turbulence, with a turbulent Mach number at the largest scale probed here (l = 130 pc) of Ms = 0.87 +- 0.15, a density contrast of 0.6 +- 0.2, and velocity and density power spectra compatible with k-11/3. The low Mach number of the WNM provides dynamical conditions that allows the condensation mode of thermal instability (TI) to grow freely and form CNM structures, as predicted by theory.

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