Power Spectrum of the density of cold atomic gas in the Galaxy towards Cas A and Cygnus A

A. A. Deshpande (Raman Research Institute; Bangalore; India); K. S. Dwarakanath (Raman Research Institute; NM; Socorro; USA); W. M. Goss (National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Power Spectrum of the density of cold atomic gas in the Galaxy towards Cas A and Cygnus A

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arxiv astro-ph/0007366 v1 submitted 2000-07-25 astro-ph

Power Spectrum of the density of cold atomic gas in the Galaxy towards Cas A and Cygnus A

A. A. Deshpande (Raman Research Institute , Bangalore , India) , K. S. Dwarakanath (Raman Research Institute , W. M. Goss (National Radio Astronomy Observatory , Socorro , NM , USA) This is my paper

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We have obtained the power spectral description of the density and opacity fluctuations of the cold HI gas in the Galaxy towards Cas A, and Cygnus A. We have employed a method of deconvolution, based on CLEAN, to estimate the true power spectrum of optical depth of cold HI gas from the observed distribution, taking into account the finite extent of the background source and the incomplete sampling of optical depth over the extent of the source. We investigate the nature of the underlying spectrum of density fluctuations in the cold HI gas which would be consistent with that of the observed HI optical depth fluctuations. These power spectra for the Perseus arm towards Cas A, and for the Outer arm towards Cygnus A have a slope of 2.75 +/- 0.25 (3sigma error). The slope in the case of the Local arm towards Cygnus A is 2.5, and is significantly shallower in comparison. The linear scales probed here range from 0.01 to 3 pc. We discuss the implications of our results, the non-Kolmogorov nature of the spectrum, and the observed HI opacity variations on small transverse scales.

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