期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 688, 期 2, 页码 1021-1028出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/591655
关键词
galaxies: individual (Small Magellanic Cloud); galaxies: ISM
资金
- NSF
- AST [0307869, 0808118]
- Center for Magnetic Self-Organization in Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences [0808118] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In this paper, genus statistics have been applied to an H I column density map of the Small Magellanic Cloud in order to study its topology. To learn how topology changes with the scale of the system, we provide topology studies for column density maps at varying resolutions. To evaluate the statistical error of the genus, we randomly reassign the phases of the Fourier modes while keeping the amplitudes. We find that at the smallest scales studied (40 pc <= lambda <= 80 pc), the genus shift is negative in all regions, implying a clump topology. At the larger scales (110 pc <= lambda <= 250 pc), the topology shift is detected to be negative (a meatball'' topology) in four cases and positive ( a swiss cheese'' topology) in two cases. In four regions, there is no statistically significant topology shift at large scales.
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