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Table 3

Median values of estimated angular extents θ, spatial extents d, kinetic temperatures Tkin, densities nH i, pressures p/kB, molecular fractions fmol, H i masses MH i, H2 masses MH2, and total hydrogen masses MH of northern and southern MIVC± samples.

θ d Tkin nH i p/kB fmol MH i MH2 MH
[arcmin] [pc] [K] [cm-3] [K cm-3] [M] [M] [M]

Ω ≥ ΩGASS

northern MIVCs 33.4 8.8/28.7 411 3.9/1.2 1560/500 0.55 75/760 90/990 210/2280
southern MIVCs 31.4 13.6/42.8 437 5.2/1.8 2160/730 0.37 310/2480 140/1380 580/5560

northern MIVCs+ 23.8 6.9/20.0 472 14.3/4.9 6730/2310 0.28 90/750 35/290 120/1040
southern MIVCs+ 36.6 14.7/46.0 386 2.8/0.9 920/290 0.54 210/2100 300/3320 510/5280

Ω < ΩGASS

northern MIVCs 10.8 2.5/7.8 427 10.4/3.1 3840/1150 0.41 4.1/44 3.9/42 8.1/86
southern MIVCs 9.4 3.1/10.6 482 15.5/4.8 7140/2160 0.28 15/130 7.7/80 25/240

northern MIVCs+ 5.2 1.4/4.5 441 43.9/13.3 19 400/5960 0.23 2.7/29 0.8/8.9 3.5/37.9
southern MIVCs+ 10.7 4.4/13.8 510 16.1/5.0 7890/2500 0.34 25/240 8.0/80 30/310

Notes. The samples are subdivided between angular sizes Ω larger or smaller than the GASS beam ΩGASS. The quantities are computed for distances that are obtained from 1000 realisations of vertical distributions with scale heights of hz = 0.5 kpc and hz = 1.6 kpc, from which the distances to the candidates are calculated for their latitudes b (Sect. 6.2). Note that there is only one northern MIVC+ candidate with Ω > ΩGASS.

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