Ambiguities in the identification of giant molecular cloud complexes from longitude-velocity diagrams

Details Ambiguities in the identification of giant molecular cloud complexes from longitude-velocity diagrams Ambiguities in the identification of giant molecular cloud complexes from longitude-velocity diagrams

Jan 1992

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Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 384, Jan. 1, 1992, p. 95-104. Research supported by University of Illinois.

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Astronomical Models, Galactic Evolution, Interstellar Matter, Molecular Clouds, Computational Astrophysics, Disk Galaxies, Milky Way Galaxy, Simulation

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Techniques which use longitude-velocity diagrams to identify molecular cloud complexes in the disk of the Galaxy are investigated by means of model Galactic disks generated from N-body cloud-particle simulations. A procedure similar to the method used to reduce the low-level emission in Galactic l-v diagrams is employed to isolate complexes of emission in the model l-v diagram (LVCs) from the 'background'clouds. The LVCs produced in this manner yield a size-line-width relationship with a slope of 0.58 and a mass spectrum with a slope of 1.55, consistent with Galactic observations. It is demonstrated that associations identified as LVCs are often chance superpositions of clouds spread out along the line of sight in the disk of the model system. This indicates that the l-v diagram cannot be used to unambiguously determine the location of molecular cloud complexes in the model Galactic disk. The modeling results also indicate that the existence of a size-line-width relationship is not a reliable indicator of the physical nature of cloud complexes, in particular, whether the complexes are gravitationally bound objects.

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