"Missing Link" Clouds in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey

Details "Missing Link" Clouds in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey "Missing Link" Clouds in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey

2005-03-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0503557v1

Astrophys.J. 626 (2005) 887-889

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

37 pages, 13 figures, 2 tables; Accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/430296

We present an automated routine to search for HI self-absorption features within the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS). The data were taken with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Parkes Radio Telescope and encompass 3 deg by 105 deg of sky in the Galactic plane. We apply our routine to this entire region and derive spin temperatures and column densities for 70 of the larger HISA complexes, finding spin temperatures ranging from 6-41 K with HI number densities of a few cm^-3. These `missing link' clouds fill in the spin temperature and density gaps between dense molecular clouds and diffuse atomic clouds. We compare the HI emission with 12CO emission and find that 60% of detected HI self-absorption is correlated in space and in velocity with a molecular counterpart. This is potentially due to a molecular/atomic gas transition. We also compare HI self-absorption with Galactic spiral arms and discuss the possibility of using it as a spiral arm tracer.

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