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Using archival Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data, we have assembled a survey of eight sightlines through high-velocity cloud Complex C. Abundances of the observed ion species vary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux

We present new observational results on high-velocity clouds (HVCs) based on an analysis of the Leiden/Dwingeloo HI survey. We cataloged all HVCs with NHI > 1 10^19 cm^-2 and found 252 clouds that form a representative flux limited sample.…

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

We present Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer observations of the atomic and molecular absorption in high velocity cloud HVC 287.5+22.5+240, which lies in front of the ultraviolet-bright nucleus of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783. We…

The high- and intermediate-velocity interstellar clouds (HVCs/IVCs) are tracers of energetic processes in and around the Milky Way. Clouds with near-solar metallicity about one kpc above the disk trace the circulation of material between…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 B. P. Wakker , D. G. York , R. Wilhelm , J. C. Barentine , P. Richter , T. C. Beers , Z. Ivezic , J. C. Howk

Context. The earliest phases of high-mass star formation are poorly understood. Aims. Our goal is to determine the physical conditions and kinematic structure of massive star-forming cloud clumps. Methods. We analyze H$_2$O 557 GHz line…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-15 Russell F. Shipman , Floris F. S van der Tak , Friedrich Wyrowski , Fabrice Herpin , Wilfred Frieswijk

We present observations of HI and OVI absorption systems proximate to a galaxy at z_gal = 0.3529. The absorption was detected serendipitously in Cosmic Origins Spectrograph observations of the low-z QSO J0943+0531 (z_qso = 0.564). The data…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 C. Thom , J. K. Werk , J. Tumlinson , J. X. Prochaska , J. D. Meiring , T. M. Tripp , K. R. Sembach

We present a census of neutral gas in the Milky Way disk and halo down to limiting column densities of $N$(HI)$\sim10^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$ using measurements of HI Lyman-series absorption from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE).…

The high-velocity cloud (HVC) Complex A is a probe of the physical conditions in the Galactic halo. The kinematics, morphology, distance, and metallicity of Complex A indicate that it represents new material that is accreting onto the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-08-06 Kathleen A. Barger , Lawrence M. Haffner , Bart P. Wakker , Alex S. Hill , Greg J. Madsen , Allison K. Duncan

We present Suzaku spectra of X-ray emission in the fields just off the LMC X-3 sight line. OVII, OVIII, and NeIX emission lines are clearly detected, suggesting the presence of an optically thin thermal plasma with an average temperature of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Y. Yao , Q. D. Wang , T. Hagihara , K. Mitsuda , D. McCammon , N. Y. Yamasaki

We present a study of the properties of the transition temperature (T~10^5 K) gas in the Milky Way corona, based on measurements of OVI, NV, CIV, SiIV and FeIII absorption lines seen in the far ultraviolet spectra of 58 sightlines to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Bart P. Wakker , Blair D. Savage , Andrew J. Fox , Robert A. Benjamin

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are composed of neutral hydrogen (HI) moving at velocities that deviate from the general rotational motion of the Milky Way. Currently, the origins of the HVCs remain poorly known due to the difficulty in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiao-Lan Liu , Jin-Long Xu , Peng Jiang , Ming Zhu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Naiping Yu , Ye Xu , Xin Guan , Jun-Jie Wang

The Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) has observed over three hundred fifty sightlines to extragalactic targets. About one hundred fifty of these are of sufficient quality to measure OVI absorption in and near the Milky Way.…

Infrared absorption lines of H3+, including the metastable R(3,3)l line, have been observed toward eight bright infrared sources associated with hot and massive stars located in and between the Galactic Center Cluster and the Quintuplet…

We combine CaII/NaI absorption and HI 21 cm emission line measurements to analyse the metal abundances, the distribution, the small-scale structure, and the physical conditions of intermediate- and high-velocity gas in the Galactic halo.

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nadya Ben Bekhti , Philipp Richter , Tobias Westmeier

We present an HI absorption survey of the central 250 pc of the Galaxy. Very Large Array (VLA) observations were made at 21 cm in the DnC and CnB configurations and have a resolution of ~15"(0.6 pc at the Galactic Center (GC) distance) and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 Cornelia C. Lang , W. Miller Goss , Claudia Cyganowski , Kelsey I. Clubb

We employ CaII K and NaI D interstellar absorption-line spectroscopy of early-type stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds to investigate the large- and small-scale structure in foreground Intermediate and High Velocity Clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-11 J. V. Smoker , A. J. Fox , F. P. Keenan

We report an accurate distance of d = 10+/-2.5kpc to the high-velocity cloud Complex C. Using high signal-to-noise Keck/HIRES spectra of two horizontal-branch stars, we have detected CaII K absorption lines from the cloud. Significant…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Thom , J. E. G. Peek , M. E. Putman , Carl Heiles , K. M. G. Peek , R. Wilhelm

We present an X-ray absorption analysis of the high-velocity system (HVS) in NGC 1275 using results from a deep 200 ks Chandra observation. We are able to describe the morphology of the HVS in more detail than ever before. We present an HST…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 K. Gillmon , J. S. Sanders , A. C. Fabian

Analysis of interstellar absorption lines observed in high-resolution {\em HST} spectra of nearby stars provides temperatures, turbulent velocities, and kinetic properties of warm interstellar clouds. Previous studies identified 15 warm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-31 Jeffrey L. Linsky , Seth Redfield , Diana Ryder , Adina Chasan-Taber

The high ionization-state ions trace the hot gases in the universe, of which gaseous halos around galaxies are a major contributor. Following Qu & Bregman (2018), we calculate the gaseous halo contribution to the observed column density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-01 Zhijie Qu , Joel N. Bregman
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