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A Neutral Hydrogen Absorption Study of Cold Gas in the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds Using the GASKAP-H I Survey

  • Authors: Hongxing Chen, Snežana Stanimirović, Nickolas M. Pingel, James Dempsey, Frances Buckland-Willis, Susan E. Clark, Helga Dénes, John M. Dickey, Steven Gibson, Katherine Jameson, Ian Kemp, Denis Leahy, Min-Young Lee, Callum Lynn, Yik Ki Ma, N. M. McClure-Griffiths, Claire E. Murray, Hiep Nguyen, Lucero Uscanga, Jacco Th. van Loon, Enrique Vázquez-Semadeni

Hongxing Chen et al 2025 The Astronomical Journal 169 .

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Caption: Figure 6.

Properties for our selected cold H I structures overplotted on the H I column density map (left and middle columns) and the intensity-weighted velocity field (moment 1) map (right column) of the SMC (upper row) and the LMC (lower row). In the left column, the circles’ colors represent the spin temperature of each absorption component, while their sizes indicate the peak optical depth (τpeak). In the middle column, the circles’ colors illustrate the CNM fraction for each LOS, and the sizes reflect the total H I column density from both CNM and WNM for each LOS. Contours in the left and middle column indicate NHI ∼ 2 × 1021 cm−2 for the SMC and NHI ∼ 1 × 1021 cm−2 for the LMC. In the right column, the circles’ colors represent the center velocity (vpeak) of the CNM components, using the same upper and lower limits as the background moment 1 map, while the size corresponds to the FWHM of each absorption component. We only present area in the moment 1 map where NHI > 1019 cm−2 for the LMC and NHI > 1020 cm−2 for the SMC.

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