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Turbulence measurements in the neutral ISM from Hi-21 cm emission–absorption spectra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2023

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Atanu Koley*
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Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Concepción, Concepción, Chile
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Abstract

We study the correlation between the non-thermal velocity dispersion ($\sigma_{nth}$) and the length scale (L) in the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) using a large number of Hi gas components taken from various published Hi surveys and previous Hi studies. We notice that above the length-scale (L) of 0.40 pc, there is a power-law relationship between $\sigma_{nth}$ and L. However, below 0.40 pc, there is a break in the power law, where $\sigma_{nth}$ is not significantly correlated with L. It has been observed from the Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method that for the dataset of L $\gt$ 0.40 pc, the most probable values of intensity (A) and power-law index (p) are 1.14 and 0.55, respectively. Result of p suggests that the power law is steeper than the standard Kolmogorov law of turbulence. This is due to the dominance of clouds in the cold neutral medium. This is even more clear when we separate the clouds into two categories: one for L is $\gt$ 0.40 pc and the kinetic temperature ($T_{k}$) is $\lt$250 K, which are in the cold neutral medium (CNM) and for other one where L is $\gt$0.40 pc and $T_{k}$ is between 250 and 5 000 K, which are in the thermally unstable phase (UNM). Most probable values of A and p are 1.14 and 0.67, respectively, in the CNM phase and 1.01 and 0.52, respectively, in the UNM phase. A greater number of data points is effective for the UNM phase in constructing a more accurate estimate of A and p, since most of the clouds in the UNM phase lie below 500 K. However, from the value of p in the CNM phase, it appears that there is a significant difference from the Kolmogorov scaling, which can be attributed to a shock-dominated medium.

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ISM: atomsISM: kinematics and dynamicsISM: lines and bandsISM: structureturbulence
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 40 , 2023 , e046
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Astronomical Society of Australia

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