Abstract
We discuss observations of the magnetic field, column density, and turbulence in the cold neutral medium (CNM). The observed quantities are only indirectly related to the intrinsic astronomical ones. We relate the observed and intrinsic quantities by relating their univariate and bivariate probability distribution functions (pdf's). We find that observations of the line-of-sight component of a magnetic field do not constrain the pdf of the total field Btot very well but do constrain the median value of Btot. In the CNM, we find a well-defined median magnetic field 6.0 ± 1.8 μG. The CNM magnetic field dominates thermal motions. Turbulence and magnetism are in approximate equipartition. We find that the probability distribution of column density N⊥(H ) in the sheets closely follows N⊥(H )-1 over a range of 2 orders of magnitude, 0.026 N⊥(H ) 2.6 × 1020 cm-2. The bivariate distributions are not well enough determined to constrain structural models of CNM sheets.
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