Interstellar Filaments and the Statistics of Galactic H i
A. Lazarian, D. Pogosyan;
ApJ, 1997, 491, 200

ABSTRACT:This paper presents a statistical explanation of filament formation in the Galactic atomic hydrogen. We claim that even in the absence of dynamical factors, the Gaussian field corresponding to the measured values of the spectrum of random density should develop filamentary structure, the existence of which has long been claimed. Therefore, this paper shows that the filamentary structure of H I is consistent with the shallow three-dimensional spectrum of random density obtained by Lazarian.
KEYWORDS: ism: general, ism: structure, radio lines: ism
PERSOKEY:h_i, general ism, ,
CODE: lazarian97