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      FOREST unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45 m telescope (FUGIN). VII. molecular fraction of HI clouds

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          In this study, we analyze molecular gas formation in neutral atomic hydrogen (HI) clouds using the latest CO data obtained from the four-beam receiver system on a 45-m telescope (FOREST) unbiased Galactic plane imaging survey with the Nobeyama 45-m telescope (FUGIN) and HI data taken from the Very Large Array (VLA) Galactic plane survey (VGPS). We applied a dendrogram algorithm to the HI data cube to identify HI clouds, and we calculated the HI mass and molecular gas mass by summing the CO line intensity within each HI cloud. On the basis of the results, we created a catalog of 5,737 identified HI clouds with local standard of rest (LSR) velocity of \(V_{\rm LSR}\le -20\) km s\(^{-1}\) in Galactic longitude and latitude ranges of \(20^\circ \le l \le 50^\circ\) and \(-1^\circ \le b \le 1^\circ\), respectively. We found that most of the HI clouds are distributed within a Galactocentric distance of 16 kpc, most of which are in the Cold Neutral Medium (CNM) phase. In addition, we determined that the high-mass end of the mass HI function is well fitted with the power-law function with an index of 2.3. Although two sequences of self-gravitating and diffuse clouds are expected to appear in the M\(_{\rm tot}\)-M\(_{{\rm H}_2}\) diagram according to previous works based on a plane-parallel model, the observational data show only a single sequence with large scattering within these two sequences. This implies that most of the clouds are mixtures of these two types of clouds. Moreover, we suggest the following scenario of molecular gas formation: An HI-dominant cloud evolved with increasing H\(_2\) mass along a path of \(M_{{\rm H}_2} \propto M_{\rm tot}^2\) by collecting diffuse gas before reaching and moving along the curves of the two sequences.

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          16 April 2020
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          10.1093/pasj/psaa027
          2004.07586
          0cdc84ea-ceb8-42ec-bdc6-759cff9a95ef

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          13 pages, 11 figures and 2 tables
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          Galaxy astrophysics
          Galaxy astrophysics

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