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A population of discrete HI clouds in the halo of the inner Galaxy has been discovered in 21cm observations made with the Green Bank Telescope. The halo clouds are seen up to 1.5 kpc from the Galactic plane at many longitudes. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) may fuel future star formation in the Milky Way, but they must first survive their passage through the hot halo. While recent work has improved our understanding of the survival criterion for cloud-wind…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-08-28 Lori E. Porter , Matthew Abruzzo , Greg L. Bryan , Mary Putman , Yong Zheng , Drummond Fielding

CO clouds can be non-self-gravitating in high pressure environments, while most should be strongly self-gravitating at low metallicities and ambient pressures. In the LMC, which is HI-rich, GMC formation and destruction should generally…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Bruce G. Elmegreen

There is mounting evidence for an extra-planar gas layer around the Milky Way disk, similar to the anomalous HI gas detected in a few other galaxies. As much as 10% of the gas may be in this phase. We analyze HI clouds located in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 L. Dedes , P. W. M Kalberla

We have mapped cold atomic gas in 21cm line HI self-absorption (HISA) at arcminute resolution over more than 90% of the Milky Way's disk. To probe the formation of H2 clouds, we have compared our HISA distribution with CO J=1-0 line…

Star-forming disc galaxies such as the Milky Way need to accrete $\gsim$ 1 $M_{\odot}$ of gas each year to sustain their star formation. This gas accretion is likely to come from the cooling of the hot corona, however it is still not clear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 F. Marinacci , J. Binney , F. Fraternali , C. Nipoti , L. Ciotti , P. Londrillo

Intermediate- and high-velocity clouds (IVCs, HVCs) are a potential source of fuel for star formation in the Milky Way (MW), but their origins and fates depend sensitively on their distances. We search for IVC and HVC in HST high-resolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk , A. Marasco , F. Fraternali

We perform linear analysis of thermal instability in a contracting large cloud filled with warm HI gas and investigate the effect of metallicity and radiation flux. When the cloud reaches critical density n_f, the cloud fragments into cool,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Motomichi Tashiro , Ryoichi Nishi

Without a source of new gas, our Galaxy would exhaust its supply of gas through the formation of stars. Ionized gas clouds observed at high velocity may be a reservoir of such gas, but their distances are key for placing them in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Nicolas Lehner , J. Christopher Howk

We present a pair of high-resolution smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations that explore the evolution and cooling behavior of hot gas around Milky-Way size galaxies. The simulations contain the same total baryonic mass and are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Tobias Kaufmann , James S. Bullock , Ariyeh H. Maller , Taotao Fang , James Wadsley

We study the formation of disks via the cooling flow of gas within galactic haloes using smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations. These simulations resolve mass scales of a few thousand solar masses in the gas component for the first…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tobias Kaufmann , Lucio Mayer , James Wadsley , Joachim Stadel , Ben Moore

We study the hypothesis that high-velocity clouds (HVCs) may originate from instabilities within the gaseous phase of the Galactic halo. According to the hydrostatic equilibrium model of Kalberla & Kerp (1998), we determine the probability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. W. Kalberla , J. Kerp , U. Haud

High--resolution 2D--MHD numerical simulations have been carried out to investigate the effects of continuing infall of clumpy gas in extended HI galactic disks. Given a certain accretion rate, the response of the disk depends on its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Santillan , F. J. Sanchez-Salcedo , J. Franco

Multiwavelength observations, from radio to X-rays, have revealed the presence of multiphase high-velocity gas near the center of the Milky Way likely associated with powerful galactic outflows. This region offers a unique laboratory to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-12 Andrea Afruni , Enrico M. Di Teodoro , Lucia Armillotta , Callum A. Lynn , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

Massive and diffuse haloes of hot gas (coronae) are important intermediaries between cosmology and galaxy evolution, storing mass and angular momentum acquired from the cosmic web until eventual accretion on to star-forming discs. We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-20 Gabriele Pezzulli , Filippo Fraternali , James Binney

We derived the inner rotation curve (RC) of the Milky Way by applying the terminal velocity method (TVM) to the longitude-velocity diagrams (LVD) made from the large-scale survey data of the Galactic plane in the HI (HI4PI whole sky survey)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-02 Y. Sofue , M. Kohno

In recent years evidence has accumulated that nearby spiral galaxies are surrounded by massive haloes of neutral and ionised gas. These gaseous haloes rotate more slowly than the disks and show inflow motions. They are clearly analogous to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Filippo Fraternali , James Binney , Tom Oosterloo , Renzo Sancisi

The extra-planar H I in the inner parts of the Milky Way has been discovered to contain numerous cloud-like structures when observed in the 21cm line with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These halo clouds have motions consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Felix J. Lockman , Yurii Pidopryhora

We present deep HI observations of three compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs). The main goal is to study their diffuse warm gas and compact cold cores. We use both low- and high-resolution data obtained with the 100 m Effelsberg telescope…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Shahram Faridani , Lars Flöer , Jürgen Kerp , Tobias Westmeier

Star-forming galaxies like the Milky Way are surrounded by a hot gaseous halo at the virial temperature - the so-called galactic corona - that plays a fundamental role in their evolution. The interaction between the disc and the corona has…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-26 Filippo Barbani , Raffaele Pascale , Federico Marinacci , Laura V. Sales , Mark Vogelsberger , Paul Torrey , Hui Li