INTERSTELLAR FILAMENTS AND THE STATISTICS OF GALACTIC H-I

This paper presents a statistical explanation of filament formation in the Galactic atomic hydrogen. We claim that even in the absence of dy namical factors, the Gaussian field corresponding to the measured valu es of the spectrum of random density should develop filamentary struct ure, the existence of which has long been claimed. Therefore, this pap er shows that the filamentary structure of H I is consistent with the shallow three-dimensional spectrum of random density obtained by Lazar ian.