Density profile of gas and HOLMES for an ESO 544−27 model. Red dots indicate the cloud layers and blue stars indicate the HOLMES layers. The connecting solid curves plot the densities. For HOLMES, the relative number density defined as the fraction of HOLMES at each layer is plotted. The model parameters are log U₁ = −3.01, which is used to determine the density at midplane (see text), and the scale heights of the gas density (h_zn = 0.79 kpc), and HOLMES number density (h_zT = 0.67 kpc). The gas density of the clouds follows an exponential profile, while the HOLMES number density profile has an exponential component and a constant component with 10% of the mass of the exponential component ((n/N)_HOLMES = 2.5 × 10³).