Topology of Neutral Hydrogen Within the Small Magellanic Cloud

Abstract

In this paper, genus statistics have been applied to an HI column density map of the Small Magellanic Cloud in order to study its topology. To learn how topology changes with the scale of the system, we provide the study of topology for column density maps at varying resolution. To evaluate the statistical error of the genus we randomly reassign the phases of the Fourier modes while keeping the amplitudes. We find, that at the smallest scales studied ($40pc\le \lambda \le 80pc$) the genus shift is in all regions negative, implying a clump topology. At the larger scales ($110pc\le \lambda \le 250pc$) the topology shift is detected to be negative in 4 cases and positive (``swiss cheese'' topology) in 2 cases. In 4 regions there is no statistically significant topology shift at large scales.

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