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Fig. 8.

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Same as Fig. 6 but for a simulated image including a population of synthetic filaments with a realistic distribution of column density contrasts (see Fig. 7) added to a filament-subtracted image of the Aquila cloud. Panel a: simulated image. The weighted average contrast ⟨δc⟩ of the distribution of synthetic filaments is 0.96 and the total area covering factor Afil is 5.5%, leading to Afil ∼ 0.051. Panel b: power spectrum of the simulated image (black solid curve). The red curve corresponds to the best power-law fit with γ = −2.3 ± 0.1. For comparison, the best power-law fit to the power spectrum of the Aquila original image is over-plotted as a green dashed line. Panel c: residuals between the best power-law fit and the power spectrum of the simulated image (red solid circles). The of the residuals is ∼0.054 For comparison, the black filled triangles show similar residuals for the Aquila original image (cf. Fig. 6c).

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