A NA I Absorption Map of the Small-Scale Structure in the Interstellar Gas Toward M15

Details A NA I Absorption Map of the Small-Scale Structure in the Interstellar Gas Toward M15 A NA I Absorption Map of the Small-Scale Structure in the Interstellar Gas Toward M15

May 1999

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American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #47.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 31, p.888

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Using the DensePak fiber optic array on the KPNO WIYN telescope, we have obtained high S/N echelle spectra of the Na I D wavelength region toward the central 27arcsec x 43arcsec of the globular cluster M15 at a spatial resolution of 4arcsec . The spectra exhibit significant interstellar Na I absorption at LSR velocities of +3 km s(-1) (LISM component) and +68 km s(-1) (IVC component) which varies appreciably in strength on these scales. The derived Na I column densities differ by a factor of 4 across the LISM absorption map and a factor of 16 across the IVC map. Assuming distances of 500 pc and 1500 pc for the LISM and IVC clouds, these maps show evidence of significant ISM structure down to the minimum scales of 2000 AU and 6000 AU probed in these absorbers. The smallest-scale N(Na I) variations observed in the M15 LISM and IVC maps are typically comparable to or higher than the values found at similar scales in previous studies of interstellar Na I structure toward binary stars. The physical implications of the small and larger-scale Na I features observed in the M15 maps will be discussed in terms of variations in the H I column density as well as the Na ionization equilibrium.

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