Galactic Small Scale Structure Revealed by the GALFA-HI Survey

Details Galactic Small Scale Structure Revealed by the GALFA-HI Survey Galactic Small Scale Structure Revealed by the GALFA-HI Survey

2010-08-18

arxiv.org/abs/1008.3185v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures. To appear in "The Dynamic ISM: A celebration of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey," ASP Conference Series

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The Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey is mapping the entire Arecibo sky at 21-cm, over a velocity range of -700 to +700 km/s (LSR), at a velocity resolution of 0.18 km/s and an angular resolution of 3.5 arcmin. The unprecedented resolution and sensitivity of the GALFA-HI survey have resulted in the detection of many isolated, very compact HI clouds at low Galactic velocities which are distinctly separated from the HI disk emission. In the limited area of ~4600 deg$^2$ searched so far, we have detected 96 such compact clouds. The detected clouds are cold with kinetic temperature less than 300 K. Moreover, they are quite compact and faint, with median values of 5 arcmin in angular size, 0.75 K in peak brightness temperature, and $5\times10^{18}$ cm$^{-2}$ in HI column density. From the modeling of spatial and velocity distributions of the whole compact cloud population, we find that the bulk of clouds are related to the Galactic disk, and are within a few kpc distance. We present properties of the compact clouds sample and discuss various possible scenarios for the origin of this clouds population and its role in the Galactic interstellar medium studies.

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