A Survey Of Cold HI In Molecular Cloud Cores And Comparison With Molecular Constituents

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Narrow HI self-absorption (HINSA) allows determination of the atomic hydrogen column density in well-shielded molecular regions. We present a comparitive study of cold atomic HI, molecular emission, and visual extinction in 75 molecular clouds. Our sources, which are not associated with massive star formation, span a range of distances between 140 and 700 pc. We have observed HINSA in approximately half of the clouds observed. The HI data were obtained using the Green Bank Telescope, which we also employed to obtain spectra of OH 1665 MHz and 1667 MHz emission. We used the FCRAO 14m telescope to obtain 12CO, 13CO, and C18O maps of 32 clouds, We use the molecular spectra to study cloud kinematics and other properties. We utilized 2MASS data to obtain the visual extinction of these objects based on stellar reddening. We have developed a new technique for determining the atomic hydrogen column density, which is based on using the characteristics of the associated molecular lines as templates for analyzing the absorption produced by the cold HI against broad background emission features. We compare the molecular column densities determined from the rare isotopes of carbon monoxide with the atomic and total column densities in our sources.

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