Interpreting The HI Column Density Power Spectrum

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2001-12-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112222v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in "Proceedings of Seeing Through the Dust, The Detection of HI and the Exploration of the ISM in Galaxies", publish

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In this paper I investigate what factors -- both observational and physical -- can change the measured slope of the observed 21cm HI power spectrum. The following effects can make the observed turbulence appear two dimensional rather than three dimensional: 1) if the turbulence is contained in a thin filament or slab; 2) if the medium has a high optical depth; and 3) if any method of observation or analysis is used which effectively limits the emission from the medium under study to a thin slab, for example, by analyzing an individual channel map. Straightforward analysis of data can give misleading or incomplete results if these effects are not taken into account.

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