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2005ApJ...626..195G - Astrophys. J., 626, 195-213 (2005/June-2)

A self-absorption census of cold H I clouds in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.

GIBSON S.J., TAYLOR A.R., HIGGS L.A., BRUNT C.M. and DEWDNEY P.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present a 21 cm line H I self-absorption (HISA) survey of cold atomic gas within Galactic longitudes l=75° to 146° and latitudes b=-3° to +5°. We identify HISA as spatially and spectrally confined dark H I features and extract it from the surrounding H I emission in the arcminute-resolution Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS). We compile a catalog of the most significant features in our survey and compare our detections against those in the literature. Within the parameters of our search, we find nearly all previously detected features and identify many new ones. The CGPS shows HISA in much greater detail than any prior survey and allows both new and previously discovered features to be placed into the larger context of Galactic structure. In space and radial velocity, faint HISA is detected virtually everywhere that the H I emission background is sufficiently bright. This ambient HISA population may arise from small turbulent fluctuations of temperature and velocity in the neutral interstellar medium. By contrast, stronger HISA is organized into discrete complexes, many of which follow a longitude-velocity distribution that suggests that they have been made visible by the velocity reversal of the Perseus arm's spiral density wave. The cold H I revealed in this way may have recently passed through the spiral shock and be on its way to forming molecules and, eventually, new stars. This paper is the second in a series examining HISA at high angular resolution. A companion paper (Paper III) describes our HISA search and extraction algorithms in detail.

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Journal keyword(s): ISM: Clouds - ISM: Kinematics and Dynamics - ISM: Structure - Methods: Analytical - Surveys - Techniques: Image Processing

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJ/626/195): table1.dat table2.dat>

Nomenclature: Table 1: GHISA LLL.ll+B.bb+VV N=69.

Status at CDS : All or part of tables of objects will not be ingested in SIMBAD.

Simbad objects: 18

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