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The Structure of Dark Molecular Gas in the Galaxy -- II. Physical State of "CO-Dark" Gas in the Perseus Arm

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Pith's one-line read Low column density and low volume density, not exotic chemistry, explain why a square degree of the Perseus Arm glows in 18-cm OH while most of it stays dark in CO, making OH a usable radio tracer of diffuse molecular hydrogen.

desk verdict A solid new OH survey that strengthens the case for OH as a CO-dark gas tracer; the low-density physical-state inference is model-dependent but honestly framed. read the letter →

arxiv 1908.04829 v1 pith:MJ7MOGJ4 submitted 2019-08-13 astro-ph.GA

Michael P. Busch , Ronald J. Allen , Philip D. Engelke , David E. Hogg , David A. Neufeld , Mark G. Wolfire This is my paper · ORCID
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The reading

The paper's target is the 'CO-dark' molecular gas: hydrogen molecules that exist in the interstellar medium but are invisible to the standard carbon-monoxide tracer. In a one-square-degree, 81-pointing map of the Perseus Arm observed at 18 cm, OH emission is detected in 86 percent of the pointings while CO appears in only 19 percent, and every CO detection has an OH counterpart. Combining the line strengths with diffuse-cloud models, the paper argues that both molecules drop below current sensitivity at a visual extinction of roughly $A_V \approx 0.2$ magnitudes, but CO stays undetectable until the volume density of hydrogen nuclei exceeds about 100–200 cm$^{-3}$. Because the OH main lines have a low critical density and are collisionally excited across most of the quiet interstellar medium, they can serve as an optically thin radio tracer for diffuse H$_2$. If the claim is right, conventional CO surveys are missing a substantial diffuse molecular component of the Galaxy.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the 18-cm OH main-line pair at 1665 and 1667 MHz, whose low critical density (about 1 cm$^{-3}$) lets collisions excite the transition in diffuse gas that cannot excite CO. The observed 5:9 LTE intensity ratio of the two main lines confirms the emission is optically thin and collisionally excited, which lets line strengths be converted into OH column densities. The companion mechanism is a grid of diffuse-cloud models that predict OH column density and CO $J=1-0$ brightness as functions of total visual extinction and hydrogen-nuclei volume density; plotting the 81 observed pairs on this grid yields thresholds of about 0.2 magnitudes of visual extinction and about 100–200 cm$^{-3}$ in hydrogen-nuclei volume density. The paper uses these two ingredients together: OH supplies the molecular-gas map, and the model grid supplies the physical-state interpretation.

What would settle it

Measure the volume density of a CO-dark, OH-bright cloud directly—for example through excited-state OH absorption, H$_2$ rotational emission, or ionized-carbon fine-structure line ratios—and check whether it is below about 100–200 cm$^{-3}$ as the model inversion claims; a CO-dark cloud with $n_H$ well above 300 cm$^{-3}$ would falsify the density explanation. A complementary test is to re-observe the same field with CO sensitivity improved by a factor of three to five: if CO appears at most OH-bright sight lines, the low-density explanation loses support.

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Core claim

In the Perseus Arm velocity range of this one-square-degree field, the 1667 MHz OH main line is detected in 86 percent of the 81 statistically independent pointings, while CO is detected in only 19 percent, and no pointing shows CO without OH. The paper's central discovery is the physical state of this CO-dark gas: overlaying the observed OH column densities and CO line strengths on a grid of diffuse-cloud models places the gas at low visual extinction ($A_V$ just above the 0.2 magnitude sensitivity floor) and low volume density of hydrogen nuclei (below roughly 100–200 cm$^{-3}$). At these densities the CO $J=1$ level is subthermally populated, so CO emission per molecule is weak, while the OH $\lambda$-doubling transitions are already thermalized because their critical density is only about 1 cm$^{-3}$. The result establishes 18-cm OH main-line emission as an optically thin radio tracer for diffuse molecular hydrogen in the quiescent outer Galaxy.

Load-bearing premise

The quantitative thresholds rest on the diffuse-cloud models used to invert OH and CO line strengths into density and extinction; if the assumed cosmic-ray ionization rate, ultraviolet radiation field, or uniform-slab cloud geometry are not right for this gas, the inferred $A_V$ and $n_H$ boundaries move.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Standard CO surveys miss a substantial fraction of molecular gas even in the nearby outer Galaxy: in this field, most statistically independent pointings are CO-dark while OH detects molecular gas in most of them.
  • Using the established N(H$_2$)/N(OH) ratio, OH-derived column densities can recover molecular mass in diffuse regions where CO-based mass estimates fail.
  • CO-dark molecular gas is not confined to cloud surfaces; it appears as extended, low-density H$_2$ structures surrounding CO-bright clouds, with scales of order 10–20 pc in this field.
  • The CO/OH line ratio is a practical density probe, because CO emission per molecule rises with density while OH emission per molecule does not once thermalized.
  • Explaining the dark gas requires no exotic chemistry: low column density and low volume density suffice to hide H$_2$ from CO surveys.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If OH traces diffuse H$_2$ in the outer Galaxy, an all-sky 18-cm OH emission survey could yield a direct inventory of the diffuse molecular component and a calibration of the CO X-factor; the paper notes that such a survey is sensitivity-limited but not impossible.
  • The same density explanation predicts that CO-dark gas should become relatively more abundant at lower metallicity or higher Galactic latitude, where dust shielding and CO formation are weaker; testing the $A_V$ and $n_H$ thresholds in such environments would discriminate the model.
  • Deeper CO observations of the same field should convert some currently CO-dark sight lines into weak CO detections; the rate of that conversion as a function of CO sensitivity provides a quantitative test of the claimed density threshold.
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Summary. The paper presents a Green Bank Telescope survey of 1665/1667 MHz OH emission over a 1x1 degree field at l=105 degrees, b=+2.5 degrees, with 81 pointings at roughly 7.5 arcmin spacing, and compares these data with FCRAO 12CO(1-0) observations smoothed to the GBT beam over the Perseus Arm velocity range. Of the 81 pointings, 86% show OH emission above 3 sigma and 19% show CO emission; no pointing has CO without OH. The OH emission is widespread and surrounds two CO-bright features, and the 1665/1667 MHz line ratio is consistent with the optically thin LTE 5:9 ratio. The authors convert OH integrated intensities to OH column densities using Eq. (2) with assumed continuum and excitation temperatures, then plot the observed OH/CO pairs on predictions from the Hollenbach et al. (2012) diffuse cloud models as modified by Neufeld & Wolfire (2016), run with a fixed cosmic-ray ionization rate and a Draine interstellar radiation field. In the context of these models, both OH and CO disappear below Av ~ 0.2 and CO emission only appears for volume densities above about 100-200 cm^-3, leading the authors to conclude that low column density and low volume density can explain the CO-dark, OH-bright sightlines.

Significance. If the physical-state inference holds, this paper is a valuable step toward establishing 18-cm OH emission as an optically thin radio tracer of diffuse molecular gas that is invisible to standard CO surveys, with implications for the dark gas fraction and X-factor calibration. The observational core is strong: a dense, blind, high-sensitivity survey with careful baseline treatment, a direct resolution-matched comparison to CO, and an explicit check using the 5:9 LTE intensity ratio. The qualitative result, that OH is widespread while CO is confined to a few compact clouds, is robust and does not depend on the modeling. The abstract is appropriately conditional ('in the context of these models'), and the paper is transparent about the chosen values of the continuum and excitation temperatures. The main weakness is that the quantitative density and column thresholds are inferred from a single uniform-density slab model per sightline, which is a load-bearing assumption for the central physical-state claim.

major comments (2)
  1. [Section 3.1, Fig. 5, Table 1] The central density threshold is derived from a model grid in which each sightline is represented as a single uniform-density slab with one nH and one AV(tot); the grid has no axis for clumping or beam filling. If the 7 pc beam contains compact dense cores (nH ~ 10^3 cm^-3) at small filling factor embedded in more extended low-density gas, the CO(1-0) emission from the cores is beam-diluted and can fall below the stated 60-100 mK sensitivity while the extended gas still produces detectable OH. Such a geometry would place an observation in the low-density region of Fig. 5 even though the gas does not satisfy a global volume-density threshold of ~100-200 cm^-3. The paper acknowledges in Section 4.2 that it cannot constrain how extended the dark gas is, but it does not address sub-beam density structure. Please either add an explicit clumping/filling-factor analysis or revise the Section 4.3 claim that 'molecular gas becomes CO-dark below ~100-200 cm^-3' to a statement of consistency with the data under the uniform-slab assumption.
  2. [Section 2.6, Eq. (2), Table 1] The OH column densities, and hence the inferred volume densities, scale with the factor F = Tex/(Tex - TC), and the paper adopts three hand-picked combinations of TC and Tex (TC=4.0 or 5.0 K; Tex=5.0, 5.5, or 6.0 K) giving F=5, 6, and 11. The resulting mean densities in Table 1 differ by almost a factor of two (CO-dark upper limits from <210 to <120 cm^-3), so the abstract's '100-200 cm^-3' is not a directly measured range but a range that partly reflects this systematic choice. The qualitative conclusion that the CO-dark gas is low-density survives, but the paper should state more explicitly that the numerical threshold is conditional on the adopted F values, and should discuss how the column density diverges as Tex approaches TC.
minor comments (4)
  1. [Section 2.6 and References] The reference to 'Furst et al. (1969)' should use the proper umlaut (Fürst et al. 1969), and the journal volume/page details in several references (e.g., Higgs et al. 2005, listed as ApJ 129, 2750) appear to be incorrect and should be checked.
  2. [Table 2 and Section 2.3] Several entries in Table 2 have negative CO integrated intensities (e.g., rows with CO Int = -0.28 and -0.187). The text notes that negative values can arise from baseline ripple, but it should be stated explicitly in the table caption or Section 2.5 that negative CO integrals are treated as non-detections in the reported detection statistics.
  3. [Section 2.5] The OH integration limits are described as chosen 'from visual inspection' for each of the 81 Perseus Arm features. Since the comparison with CO uses the same velocity limits, the authors should state whether the OH integration limits were set before or after inspecting the CO spectra, to rule out confirmation bias in the OH/CO comparison.
  4. [Figure 4] The heatmaps set locations below 3-sigma to zero; it would be helpful to state in the caption whether the color scale is linear and whether any negative baseline values are clipped before display.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 1.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the OH/CO comparison is interpreted with independently published PDR models, and the few self-citations are not load-bearing.

full rationale

The paper's central derivation is observational: it measures OH and CO line strengths over 81 sightlines, converts OH strengths to column densities using Eq. (2) with explicitly stated Tex and TC assumptions, and overplots these on a pre-existing diffuse-cloud model grid (Hollenbach et al. 2012; Neufeld & Wolfire 2016) in Fig. 5. No parameter of the model is fitted to the Perseus data; the model is run at fixed cosmic-ray ionization rate (2e-16 s^-1) and Draine ISRF. The conclusion that CO-dark gas has nH approximately 100-200 cm^-3 lower than CO-bright gas is read off the model grid, not encoded in the model inputs. The abstract itself is careful to say 'In the context of these models...', so the inference is explicitly conditional on an external benchmark. Two of the model papers share authors (Neufeld, Wolfire), but those models are general PDR calculations that predate and do not assume this dataset's result; this is a normal use of prior published theory, not an imported uniqueness theorem or ansatz. The OH/H2 ratio cited from Engelke & Allen (2018), a paper by current co-authors, is used only in the introduction to motivate OH as a tracer and is not needed for the model-grid inversion. Potential concerns about sub-beam clumping or the uniform-slab assumption are model-adequacy questions, not circularity: the paper does not claim the data force the slab geometry. Overall score 1: no circular step; minor self-citations are present but not load-bearing.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The paper introduces no new physical entities. Its quantitative claims rest on two hand-chosen temperature parameters (TC and Tex) and on external model assumptions (CR ionization rate, UV field, slab geometry). The detection statistics and morphological results do not depend on these choices, but the density and AV thresholds do.

free parameters (2)
  • TC (continuum background temperature at 1667 MHz) = 4.0 K and 5.0 K
    Chosen by hand to bracket plausible foreground/background continuum contributions; used in Eq. 2 to convert OH line strength to column density.
  • Tex (excitation temperature of the 1667 MHz OH line) = TC + 0.5 K and TC + 1.0 K
    Estimated from one sightline near an HII region and varied over a plausible range; directly controls the F factor and the derived OH column densities and inferred densities.
assumptions (4)
  • domain assumption OH emission is optically thin and the 1665/1667 MHz lines are in the LTE ratio 5:9
    Used in Section 2.6 (Eq. 2) to convert line strengths to OH column density; the paper reports that most sightlines show the 5:9 ratio, providing supporting evidence.
  • domain assumption Features with VLSR between -75 and -50 km/s belong to the Perseus Arm at a distance of about 3.2 kpc
    Adopted in Sections 2.3 and 2.4 based on HI profiles and BeSSeL parallax distances; the authors invoke 'rolling motions' to explain scatter, which is an unverified assumption.
  • domain assumption The Hollenbach et al. (2012) / Neufeld & Wolfire (2016) diffuse cloud models, with cosmic-ray ionization rate 2e-16 s^-1 and Draine interstellar radiation field, describe the gas
    Used in Section 3.1 to produce model grids of OH and CO emission versus nH and AV; all quantitative physical-state inferences in Table 1 and Figure 5 depend on this external model.
  • domain assumption The clouds are treated as uniform-density slabs
    The adopted models assume a single uniform density for each cloud; real interstellar gas is clumpy, which could change the relationship between OH and CO emission and the inferred densities.

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abstract

We report the results from a new, highly sensitive ($\Delta T_{mb} \sim 3 $mK) survey for thermal OH emission at 1665 and 1667 MHz over a dense, 9 x 9-pixel grid covering a $1\deg$ x $1\deg$ patch of sky in the direction of $l = 105\deg, b = +2.50\deg$ towards the Perseus spiral arm of our Galaxy. We compare our Green Bank Telescope (GBT) 1667 MHz OH results with archival CO J=1-0 observations from the Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory (FCRAO) Outer Galaxy Survey within the velocity range of the Perseus Arm at these galactic coordinates. Out of the 81 statistically-independent pointings in our survey area, 86% show detectable OH emission at 1667 MHz, and 19% of them show detectable CO emission. We explore the possible physical conditions of the observed features using a set of diffuse molecular cloud models. In the context of these models, both OH and CO disappear at current sensitivity limits below an A$_{\rm v}$ of 0.2, but the CO emission does not appear until the volume density exceeds 100-200 cm$^{-3}$. These results demonstrate that a combination of low column density A$_{\rm v}$ and low volume density $n_{H}$ can explain the lack of CO emission along sight lines exhibiting OH emission. The 18-cm OH main lines, with their low critical density of $n^{*}$ $ \sim 1 $ cm$^{-3}$, are collisionally excited over a large fraction of the quiescent galactic environment and, for observations of sufficient sensitivity, provide an optically-thin radio tracer for diffuse H$_2$.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. The blind survey areas discussed in this work. The “X” markers indicate the original 3x9 ‘sparse’ survey carried out with the GBT ACS spectrometer in program AGBT13B_044 as reported in Paper 1. The set of 9 “X” sightlines in the range of +2 ◦ to +3 ◦ were later re-observed using the newer VEGAS backend for consis￾tency with the remaining sightlines. The "+" markers indicate the next 5x6 survey carried out in program… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Above: Example of a 1667 MHz OH spectrum from the One Square Degree survey. This spectrum was taken at l = 104. ◦ 625,b = +2. ◦ 875 with 2 hr of exposure time on the GBT. We consider any feature detected between -75 and -50 km s−1 to be associated with the Perseus Arm. In this spectrum, the OH feature associated with Perseus Arm is located near -65 km s−1 . Smaller OH features, possibly spurious, can be observed som… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The OH 1667 MHz emission line strength and the 12CO(1-0) line strength integrated over the same velocity range near VLSR ∼ −65 km s−1 , corresponding the Perseus Arm. The pointings with detectable (above 3 σ) CO and OH are marked in red. Pointings only with detectable OH are marked in blue. There are 9 pointings with no detections in either OH or CO that are not shown on the plot. We note that there are no pointings… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: The survey area in both molecular tracers. Left: The profile integral strengths for the CO line in the Perseus Arm velocity range (VLSR ∼ −65 km s−1 ). Right: The profile integral strengths for the OH 1667 MHz line over the same velocity range. The squares in these “he…
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The predicted OH column densities and brightness temperatures of the CO(1-0) line as a function of the thickness of the cloud and the volume density of H nuclei (nH = nHI + 2 nH2 ). The colored contours indicate volume density of H nuclei, and the black dashed curves i…

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