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SNR candidates can be identified efficiently in radio continuum surveys using their low MIR to radio continuum flux ratios.

Helfand et al. Recently, Green et al. These previous studies have first identified promising radio continuum candidates, and then examined their 8. This method, however, has an inherent bias toward objects that look like SNRs, i. More survey details are given in Beuther et al. To detect low surface brightness SNRs, the radio observations must be sensitive to large, extended structures.

To reduce confusion in the Galactic plane, the data should also have high angular resolution. The low surface brightness noise threshold, together with the sensitivity to small-scale structures, makes the THOR survey the ideal data set to identify new SNRs. Planetary nebulae can appear similar, but they are distinguished by their small sizes and weak far-infrared fluxes Anderson et al.

G14 is the most up-to-date and authoritative catalog of Galactic SNRs. The catalog sources cover the entire sky, but since it is not derived from a homogeneous survey, the catalog sensitivity varies with Galactic location. In addition to the surface brightness limit, the catalog appears to be lacking the small angular size SNRs that are expected Green We do not have a preferred morphology for the regions we identify aside for avoiding long filamentary radio continuum features that, based on the morphologies of known SNRs, are not likely to be SNRs.

By matching the positions and sizes with the G14 catalog, we determine which of these sources have been previously identified as SNRs. We illustrate the identification process in Fig. Dotted boxes enclose the areas displayed as insets below. We define a circular aperture for each source that completely contains its radio continuum emission. For SNR candidates that have partial-shell morphologies, the circular aperture follows the curvature of the visible portion of the shell.

We define four background apertures for each source. The background apertures sample the local background and avoid discrete continuum sources not associated with the SNR. We attempt to make the background apertures as large as possible, and to space them evenly around the source. If there are large-scale gradients in the background level, however, we sample these gradients. In complicated fields, we must define smaller background apertures, but we still aim to space them evenly around the source.

Five SNR candidates are low surface brightness and confused with nearby regions, and we do not compute their flux densities. We then compute the source integrated intensity as 1 and the source integrated intensity uncertainty as 2 where the summations are carried out over the four background apertures, I is the average integrated source intensity, I i is the integrated source intensity found using one background aperture, I 0 is integrated source intensity before background subtraction, B i is the integrated intensity from one background aperture, N B,i is the number of pixels within one background aperture, and N S is the number of pixels within the source aperture.

This method subtracts the mean intensity of a background aperture from every pixel in the source aperture. Circles in both panels are the same as in Fig. The circles approximate the SNR sizes, but due to the aspect ratio of the plot, the sizes are only valid along the Galactic longitude axis.

We use only the flux density values, rather than intensities, in subsequent analyses. There are a couple complications with our method. First, there are numerous filamentary features in the Galactic plane observed in radio continuum emission. These features are frequently located near large massive star formation complexes. We interpret them as being dense thermally emitting ionized gas interacting with atomic or molecular material in the ISM, and do not catalog such regions as possible SNRs.

Another unrelated complication also arises around massive star formation complexes, where bright continuum emission produces interferometric artifacts that do not have MIR counterparts, and therefore can be mistaken for SNRs see Beuther et al. To reduce the chance of identifying artifacts, we verify that all identified SNR candidates near large star formation complexes are also detected in the NVSS Condon et al.

Due to the higher probability that a radio continuum feature is thermally emitting ionized gas or an interferometric artifact, we are conservative in our identifications around large star formation complexes.

In our aperture photometry measurements, we create a circular aperture that encloses the radio continuum emission of each source and therefore define the centroid and radius of each region. Seven SNR candidates are so confused with nearby radio continuum sources that their flux densities are unreliable; we do not list flux densities for these seven regions. Of the 76 candidates, seven were identified previously as being possible SNRs in H06, and one was identified in B These works utilized the same MIR deficit as we use here, but also employed data from multiple radio frequencies in an effort to determine the spectral indices.

Our identifications therefore provide some additional support to the object being a true SNR, although this support is limited due to the similarities between our methodologies. THOR includes multiple continuum spectral windows that in principle allow for the computation of spectral indices. Bihr et al. Table 2 G14 known SNRs. This region was detected in radio continuum emission by Sabin et al. The nature of this source is therefore unclear. The flux densities derived from our aperture photometry measurements agree well with those listed in the G14 catalog, as illustrated by Fig.

We discuss the individual regions below. Filled circles denote SNRs that have more secure values in the G14 catalog, whereas open circles are more uncertain values that have a question mark in the G14 catalog. The dotted line shows a relationship. The central positions are taken from the G14 catalog, and the image dimensions are three times the G14 SNR diameters.

As in Fig. Similar to G Lang et al. On its western edge there is strong 8. Lockman measured RRL emission from a position on the western edge. Together, these data indicate that the radio emission previously suggested as being a possible SNR remnant associated with the G We now turn to the dense clouds, which form under the influence of gravity and turbulence. We are primarily interested here by obtaining a statistical description and to determine to what extent their properties vary with feedback and magnetization.

In particular the existence of scaling relations, the so-called Larson relations, is well established Larson ; Solomon et al. We note that these observations are performed in the CO lines, which is typically tracing molecular gas of densities of the order of few 10 2 cm Heyer et al. We note that the effect is clear for massive structures but less apparent for low mass ones. The structures are obtained with a density threshold of 50 cm -3 using a simple friends-of-friends algorithm.

The reason for this threshold is that at a density of 10 3 cm -3 the sink particles are being introduced. Therefore, to get a significant dynamical range, we adopt a value that is well below this threshold.

This means that we may not be tracing exactly the same gas. However, observations of the atomic gas have also been performed in external galaxies as the LMC Kim et al. In principle structures should be identified in the same way that observers proceed.

However this would imply several steps and in particular the calculation of the CO molecules abundances e. Duarte-Cabral et al. This latter point is particularly difficult because the CO abundances predicted by PDR codes for intermediate density gas column densities smaller than a few 10 20 cm -2 are underestimated by almost one order of magnitude see Fig.

These issues would require a dedicated study and are clearly beyond the scope of the paper. We then take the largest of these three fluxes. From left to right : runs B0, B1, B2, and B4. First row : mass-size relation. Second row : size-velocity dispersion relation. Bottom panels: weak feedback. The solid red lines show the power-laws stated by Eq. Column density and mean velocity field in the z -plane.

First row : strong feedback. Second row : weak feedback. The mass-size and size-velocity dispersion relations are shown in Fig. The power-laws stated by Eq. The total mass is below the one inferred from CO survey but as explained above it is likely a consequence of the density threshold being too low.

To verify this, we have extracted the clumps using a threshold of cm In this case the cloud masses is as expected about four times larger and present the same power-law behaviour. Interestingly, the number of small clumps is much higher in the hydrodynamical run B0 than in the MHD ones and decreases with magnetic intensity, while the power-law behaviour does not change. This effect, which has already been observed in smaller-scale simulations Hennebelle is likely a consequence of magnetic tension, which makes the flow more coherent.

The velocity dispersion is also displayed in Fig. The values present a significant dispersion. The largest velocity dispersion of the clouds in simulations B0, B1 and B2 are comparable with the largest velocity dispersion inferred from observations Falgarone et al. Both distributions present a large spread and some clouds have a velocity dispersion significantly below the mean value. As can be seen the velocity dispersion is significantly lower in the most magnetized case, simulation B4.

This is a consequence of stronger field which makes it difficult to bend the field lines but also likely of the reduced star formation rate as shown in Fig. Interestingly the simulations with weak feedback B0W-B4W present very similar properties to the standard feedback case. This is indeed expected since, as discussed before, the amount of momentum delivered in the ISM are comparable because the SFR are higher in the weak feedback simulations.

The run B1 shows similar trends except that the spread is significantly reduced for clouds of small masses. The behaviour for the weak feedback runs is also similar with a trend for slightly lower values.

First of all, we may expect a selection effect. While the most massive and unstable clouds are born out of an ensemble of structures, that on average are dominated by turbulence individually as shown in Fig. These points are illustrated by Fig. Only the most massive one top left panel shows some clear sign of global infall and even there, it is obvious that there are plenty of non-infalling and disordered motions.

For the three other clouds shown the most obvious trends are the diverging motions which are due to supernova feedback. This implies that in the present simulations, feedback processes, which are both spatially and temporally correlated with star formation, start to destroy the clouds before a global collapse takes place.

Although this behaviour likely depends on the details of the feedback processes which are not sufficiently accurately described in this work, it must be reminded that the star formation efficiency is observed to be rather low in molecular clouds Lada et al. At smaller scales not well described in this work , the situation may be different Peretto et al. It increases from values of about 0. A similar relation has been obtained by Banerjee et al. This relation is important as it leads to a prediction of the field intensity in ISM structures.

As we see it, this is essentially due to a simple geometrical effect, larger structures having a larger volume over surface ratio than smaller ones. Finally Fig. The shape observed in smaller scale simulations is recovered e. This good agreement between simulations performed at scales of 50 pc and the present ones which resolve the galactic disc is consistent with the idea that a large scale turbulent cascade is taking place and that the limited range of structure distribution, a clear consequence, of limited resolution, can be extrapolated to the regime of smaller structures.

Figure 16 confirms that stronger fields tend to diminish the number of small scale structures see for example runs B0W, B1W and B2W which all have a resolution of 3. This is also consistent with the idea that the fluid particle being partially linked by the field lines, they tend to form bigger clumps. Observationally a slope of about 1.

Kramer et al. We have performed a series of high resolution tridimensional numerical simulations with a resolution up to 3 , aiming to describe self-consistently the vertical structure of a galactic disc and a self-regulated star-forming ISM through supernova feedback. We considered four magnetizations and two feedback injections, one using canonical momentum injected by the supernovae and one four times below this value.

The measured SFR are comparable to the observational values, particularly with the standard feedback and magnetization. It is roughly four times larger when the weak feedback scheme is used. The hydrodynamical runs present SFR two times larger than the intermediate magnetization and the run with the strongest field presents SFR two or three times lower than in the intermediate field case.

We found that while significant, the impact of the magnetic field tends to be limited by two effects. First of all magnetic flux tends to be expelled from the galactic plane probably because of the turbulent motions arising there.

Second of all the magnetic and velocity fields are preferentially aligned reducing the effect of the Lorentz force. Comparison between an analytical model and the measured scale height, shows that indeed, except for the most magnetized runs, the magnetic field does not increase the disc scale height significantly.

This allows us to also estimate the efficiency of the energy injection by the supernovae onto the gas within the galactic disc and we find it to be on the order of a few percents. As the simulations are strongly stratified, we also computed bidimensional power spectra in a series of horizontal planes at various heights.

In particular, we performed a Helmholtz decomposition and found that in the equatorial plane, even for the strongly magnetized runs, the compressible modes tend to dominate the solenoidal ones. At higher heights the former becomes negligible. We stress that the dominance of the compressible modes in the galactic plane is possibly biased by our particular choice of supernovae driving.

Finally, we extracted the dense clouds and computed their physical properties, finding them to be reminiscent of the observed clouds though we do not exclude that their internal velocities may be too low, which may indicate that either feedback is not strong enough, either there is further energy injection from the large galactic scales.

We thank the anonymous referee for a thorough and constructive report, which has improved the manuscript. Here we provide for comparison and reference the power spectra of the high resolution runs corresponding to the standard feedback Fig.

As can be seen these spectra are very similar to the ones presented in Fig. Three-dimensional power spectra. As the simulations presented here have a strong stratification, we show for the sake of completeness a series of two-dimensional power spectra obtained at three altitudes.

As can be seen the index of the power spectra are broadly compatible to the three-dimensional ones presented in Fig. In particular the index of the magnetic field power spectra varies with altitude. Figure C. Clearly this is because this gas is produced by supernova explosions. For denser gas, the relative orientation distribution is nearly the same for the three bins 0. As expected the alignment is stronger when the field intensity is higher.

Figure D. The numbers inferred are pretty similar. From left to right : runs B0, B1, B2, and B4, size times column density-velocity dispersion relation. Column density maps for the various runs.

Mass in sinks first row and estimated star formation rate second row as a function of time. Vertical density profiles. Vertical kinetic, thermal and magnetic pressure profiles 25 Myr after the beginning of star formation.

Comparison between the half width at half maximum HWHM of the density profiles measured in the simulations diamonds and the analytical models at time 40, 60 and 80 Myr. Density upper panel and column density lower panels distributions for the runs with strong feedback.

Two-dimensional velocity power spectra with the Helmholtz decomposition. Relative orientation of the velocity and the magnetic field as a function of time and magnetic field intensity for the strong feedback runs. Relative orientation of the velocity and the magnetic field as a function of time and magnetic field intensity for the weak feedback runs. Clump scaling relations at 60 Myr. Images of the four most massive clouds identified in the simulation B1 at time 60 Myr.

Clump mass spectra at 60 Myr. Runs B0 and B1 high resolution with standard feedback. Relative orientation of the velocity and the magnetic fields as a function of time for five density bins. Data correspond to usage on the plateform after The current usage metrics is available hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days. Introduction 2. General structure 4. UK versus US spelling and grammar 5. Punctuation and style concerns regarding equations, figures, tables, and footnotes 6.

Verb tenses 7. General hyphenation guide 8. Common editing issues 9. Measurements and their descriptions Free Access. Top Abstract 1. Numerical setup 3. Global properties 4. Turbulence properties 5. The estimate extraction functions in the package simplify the ability to create bootstrapped sampling distributions of those estimates. Other terms can be bootstrapped as well, the target estimated just needs to be extracted via other means.

The pairwise function takes a linear model and performs the requested pairwise comparisons on the categorical terms in the model. For simple one-way models where a single categorical variable predicts and outcome. You will get output similar to other methods of computing pairwise comparisons e. TukeyHSD or t. Essentially, the differences on the outcome between each of the groups defined by the categorical variable are compared with the requested test, and their confidence intervals and p-values are adjusted by the requested correction.

However, when more than two variables are entered into the model, the outcome will diverge somewhat from other methods of computing pairwise comparisons. For traditional pairwise tests you need to estimate an error term, usually by pooling the standard deviation of the groups being compared.

This means that when you have other predictors in the model, their presence is ignored when running these tests. For the functions in this package, we instead compute the pooled standard error by using the mean squared error MSE from the full model fit. If we are predicting Thumb length from Sex , we can create that linear model and get the pairwise comparisons like this:.

The output of this code will have one table showing the comparison of males and females on thumb length. The pooled standard error is the same as the square root of the MSE from the full model. In these data the Sex variable did not have any other values than male and female, but we can imagine situations where the data had other values like other or more refined responses.

In these cases, the pooled SD would be calculated by taking the MSE of the full model not of each group and then weighting it based on the size of the groups in question divide by n.