Column density maps for MWISP ^13^CO mol. clouds Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Ma Y.
  2. Wang H.
  3. Zhang M.
  4. Wang C.
  5. Zhang S.
  6. Liu Y.
  7. Li C.
  8. Zheng Y.,Yuan L.
  9. Yang Ji
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We have obtained column density maps for an unbiased sample of 120 molecular clouds in the third quadrant of the Milky Way midplane (b<=|5|{deg}) within the Galactic longitude range from 195{deg} to 225{deg}, using the high-sensitivity ^12^CO and ^13^CO (J=1-0) data from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project. The probability density functions of the molecular hydrogen column density of the clouds, N-pdfs, are fitted with both a lognormal (LN) function and a lognormal plus power-law (LN+PL) function. The molecular clouds are classified into three categories according to their shapes of N-pdfs, i.e., LN, LN+PL, and UN (unclear). About 72% of the molecular clouds fall into the LN category, while 18% and 10% fall into the LN+PL and UN categories, respectively. A PL scaling relation, {sigma}_s_{propto}N_H2_^0.44^, exists between the width of the N-pdf, {sigma}_s_, and the average column density, N_H2_, of the molecular clouds. However, {sigma}_s_ shows no correlation with the mass of the clouds. A correlation is found between the dispersion of normalized column density, {sigma}_N/<N>_, and the sonic Mach number, M, of molecular clouds. Overall, as predicted by numerical simulations, the N-pdfs of the molecular clouds with active star formation activity tend to have N-pdfs with PL high-density tails.

Keywords
  1. molecular-clouds
  2. interstellar-medium
  3. surveys
  4. co-line-emission
  5. molecular-physics
  6. milky-way-galaxy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2022ApJS..262...16M
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History

2022-12-06T09:33:00Z
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2022-12-06T09:33:00Z
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2022-12-12T13:28:47Z
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