Fragmented molecular clouds - Statistical analysis of the C-13O (J = 1 - 0) emission distribution

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Mar 1986

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986a%26a...157..139p&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 157, no. 1, March 1986, p. 139-147.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Autocorrelation, Galactic Clusters, Interstellar Gas, Molecular Clouds, Quantitative Analysis, Statistical Analysis, Carbon Monoxide, Molecular Gases, Noise Measurement, Poisson Density Functions

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A quantitative analysis of the structure of fragmented molecular clouds is attempted through the computation of the three dimensional (l, b, v) autocorrelation function (ACF) of the C-13O emission measured in a few nearby complexes. The necessity of reducing the data to a small volume of relevant information increases with the amount of data. The ACF is a relatively simple representation of part of the information contained in the data. The main point is that the reduced quantities should be direct ingredients to a physical description of the interstellar medium. This point is not reached yet here, but that, in the frame of a simplified analytical model of fragmented clouds, where the total ACF appears as a superposition of individual scales ACF, an interpretation of the computed ACF is possible in terms of familiar quantities such as characteristic scales, filling factors, size/velocity dispersion relation. The parameters deduced from these ACF computations are consistent with similar quantities obtained with a different method.

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