Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold HI gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way
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| author | Lynn, Callum Marchal, Antoine McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine Murray, Claire E. Nguyen, Hiep Dempsey, James Di Teodoro, Enrico van Loon, Jacco Th. Dickey, John M. Lee, Min-Young Joncas, Gilles Ma, Yik Ki Pingel, Nickolas M. Stanimirović, Snežana Kemp, Ian Gibson, Steven Dénes, Helga |
| author_facet | Lynn, Callum Marchal, Antoine McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine Murray, Claire E. Nguyen, Hiep Dempsey, James Di Teodoro, Enrico van Loon, Jacco Th. Dickey, John M. Lee, Min-Young Joncas, Gilles Ma, Yik Ki Pingel, Nickolas M. Stanimirović, Snežana Kemp, Ian Gibson, Steven Dénes, Helga |
| contents | We use the Milky Way neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption and emission spectra from the Galactic Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (GASKAP) Phase II Pilot survey along with toy models to investigate the effects of stacking multicomponent spectra on measurements of peak optical depth and spin temperature. Shifting spectra by the peak in emission, 'primary' components shifted to 0 km s$^{-1}$ are correctly averaged. Additional components on individual sightlines are averaged with non-centred velocities, producing a broader and shallower 'secondary' component in the resulting stack. Peak optical depths and brightness temperatures of the secondary components from stacks are lower limits of their true average values due to the velocity offset of each component. The spin temperature however is well correlated with the truth since the velocity offset of components affects the emission and absorption spectra equally. Stacking 462 GASKAP absorption-emission spectral pairs, we detect a component with a spin temperature of 1320 $\pm$ 263 K, consistent with gas from the unstable neutral medium and higher than any previous GASKAP detection in this region. We also stack 2240 pilot survey spectra containing no Milky Way absorption, revealing a primary narrow and secondary broad component, with spin temperatures belonging to the cold neutral medium (CNM). Spatially binning and stacking the non-detections across the plane-of-sky by their distance from CNM absorption detections, the primary component's optical depth decreases with distance from known locations of cold gas. The spin temperature however remains stable in both components, over an approximate physical plane-of-sky distance of $\sim$ 100 pc. |
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| spellingShingle | Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold HI gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way Lynn, Callum Marchal, Antoine McClure-Griffiths, N. M. Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine Murray, Claire E. Nguyen, Hiep Dempsey, James Di Teodoro, Enrico van Loon, Jacco Th. Dickey, John M. Lee, Min-Young Joncas, Gilles Ma, Yik Ki Pingel, Nickolas M. Stanimirović, Snežana Kemp, Ian Gibson, Steven Dénes, Helga Astrophysics of Galaxies We use the Milky Way neutral hydrogen (HI) absorption and emission spectra from the Galactic Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (GASKAP) Phase II Pilot survey along with toy models to investigate the effects of stacking multicomponent spectra on measurements of peak optical depth and spin temperature. Shifting spectra by the peak in emission, 'primary' components shifted to 0 km s$^{-1}$ are correctly averaged. Additional components on individual sightlines are averaged with non-centred velocities, producing a broader and shallower 'secondary' component in the resulting stack. Peak optical depths and brightness temperatures of the secondary components from stacks are lower limits of their true average values due to the velocity offset of each component. The spin temperature however is well correlated with the truth since the velocity offset of components affects the emission and absorption spectra equally. Stacking 462 GASKAP absorption-emission spectral pairs, we detect a component with a spin temperature of 1320 $\pm$ 263 K, consistent with gas from the unstable neutral medium and higher than any previous GASKAP detection in this region. We also stack 2240 pilot survey spectra containing no Milky Way absorption, revealing a primary narrow and secondary broad component, with spin temperatures belonging to the cold neutral medium (CNM). Spatially binning and stacking the non-detections across the plane-of-sky by their distance from CNM absorption detections, the primary component's optical depth decreases with distance from known locations of cold gas. The spin temperature however remains stable in both components, over an approximate physical plane-of-sky distance of $\sim$ 100 pc. |
| title | Considerations with stacking absorption spectra: cold HI gas in cirrus region of the Milky Way |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11910 |