Abstract

The shape of high-latitude 21 cm H I emission profiles suggests that the local neutral interstellar medium is supported in the Galactic gravitational potential primarily by turbulence, that is, by the motion of individual clouds. Composite H I spectra derived from averages over large areas of the high-latitude sky are modeled by several isothermal components whose equilibrium vertical distribution in a plausible Galactic potential successfully reproduces the observed thickness of the H I layer.

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