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Table 1.

Number of features, density of features per square mega-meter per second, amplitudes of horizontal velocities, heights of optical depth unity (τ = 1, for features found in the simulation), feature sizes, and representative brightness temperatures.

Band 3
Band 6
ALMA obs. Deg. sim. Org. sim ALMA obs. Deg. sim. Org. sim.
# Feat. 193 24 36 293 204 392
6.1 × 10−5 2.3 × 10−5 3.4 × 10−5 3.2 × 10−4 1.6 × 10−4 3.1 × 10−4
Hor. Amplitude velocity [km s−1​] Range 0.2–33.8 0.2–38.9 0.2–37.2 0.1–12.3 0.2–17.3 0.1–18.2
Mean 4.2 4.1 5.0 2.1 2.8 3.1
Median 2.6 2.6 3.7 1.5 2.1 2.3
Geometric heights [km] τ = 1 Range 1152–2269 725–3278 757–2368 506–3081
Median 1563 1573 1260 1387
Std. dev. 192 295 171 201
Feature Sizes [km] Range 1183–5088 1183–3995 1176–3804 473–1920 493–1688 467–1606
Median 1895 2116 1819 789 943 777
Std. dev. 583 535 403 218 195 201
Representative Tb [K] Median 11 083 9789 10 970 9000 7136 8621
Std. dev. 949 1287 1432 671 874 1006

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