Faint HI 21-cm Emission Line Wings at Forbidden-Velocities
Abstract
We present the results of a search for faint HI 21-cm emission line wings at velocities forbidden by Galactic rotation in the Galactic plane using the Leiden/Dwingeloo HI Survey data and the HI Southern Galactic Plane Survey data. These ``forbidden-velocity wings (FVWs)'' appear as protruding excessive emission in comparison with their surroundings in limited (< 2 deg) spatial regions over velocity extent more than ~20 km/s in large-scale (l-v) diagrams. Their high-velocities imply that there should be some dynamical phenomena associated. We have identified 87 FVWs. We present their catalog, and discuss their distribution and statistical properties. We found that 85% of FVWs are not coincident with known supernova remnants (SNRs), galaxies, or high-velocity clouds. Their natures are currently unknown. We suspect that many of them are fast-moving HI shells and filaments associated with the oldest SNRs that are essentially invisible except via their HI line emission. We discuss other possible origins.
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@article{arxiv.0705.3684,
title = {Faint HI 21-cm Emission Line Wings at Forbidden-Velocities},
author = {Ji-hyun Kang and Bon-Chul Koo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0705.3684},
year = {2009}
}
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41 pages, 14 figures, to be published in apjs