Galactic Worm 123.4-1.5: A Mushroom-shaped HI Cloud

Details Galactic Worm 123.4-1.5: A Mushroom-shaped HI Cloud Galactic Worm 123.4-1.5: A Mushroom-shaped HI Cloud

2000-03-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0003081v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Gzip tar file of latex version of accepted APJLet paper and 2 jpeg figures; also available at http://www.stsci.edu/~jenglish

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The Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory's Synthesis Telescope provides the highest resolution data (1 arcmin and 0.82 km/s) to date of an HI worm candidate. Observed as part of the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey, mushroom-shaped GW 123.4-1.5 extends only a few hundred parsecs, contains ~10^5 solar masses of neutral hydrogen, and appears unrelated to a conventional shell or chimney structure. Our preliminary Zeus-2d models use a single off-plane explosion with a modest (~10^{51} ergs) energy input. These generic simulations generate, interior to an expanding outer blast wave, a buoyant cloud whose structure resembles the morphology of the observed feature. Unlike typical model superbubbles, the stem can be narrow because its width is not governed by the pressure behind the blast wave nor the disk scale height. Using this type of approach it should be possible to more accurately model the thin stem and other details of GW 123.4-1.5 in the future.

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