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HI observations of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) indicate, that they are interacting with their ambient medium. Even clouds located in the very outer Galactic halo or the intergalactic space seem to interact with their ambient medium. In this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. Konz , C. Bruens , G. T. Birk

We have detected over 400 HI clouds in the lower halo of the Galaxy within the pilot region of the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), a region of the fourth quadrant that spans 18 degrees in longitude, 40 degrees in latitude and is centered on…

Six examples of the compact, isolated high-velocity HI clouds (CHVCs) identified by Braun and Burton (1999) have been imaged with the WSRT. The 65 confirmed objects in this class define a dynamically cold system, with a global minimum for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Braun , Butler Burton

We present deep HI 21-cm and optical observations of the face-on spiral galaxy M 83 obtained as part of a project to search for high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in nearby galaxies. Anomalous-velocity neutral gas is detected toward M 83, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Eric D. Miller , Joel N. Bregman , Bart P. Wakker

We have obtained high resolution FUSE and HST/STIS echelle observations of the quasar PG 1116+215. The semi-continuous coverage of the ultraviolet spectrum over the wavelength range 916-2800 provides detections of Galactic and high velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rajib Ganguly , Kenneth R. Sembach , Todd M. Tripp , Blair D. Savage

Potential condensed clouds of gas in the Galactic halo are examined in the context of the recent models of cooling, fragmenting clouds building up the baryonic mass of the Galaxy. 582 high-velocity clouds (HVCs) are defined as the potential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. E. Putman

Recent, high sensitivity, HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies show that their thin `cold' disks are surrounded by thick layers (halos) of neutral gas with anomalous kinematics. We present results for three galaxies viewed at different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Filippo Fraternali , Tom Oosterloo , Rense Boomsma , Rob Swaters , Renzo Sancisi

In this contribution the current state of knowledge about the high-velocity clouds (HVCs) is summarized. Recent progress has shown that the HVCs are a diverse phenomenon. The intermediate-velocity clouds (IVCs) are likely to be part of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. P. Wakker

A catalog of Southern anomalous-velocity HI clouds at Decl. < +2 deg is presented, based on data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). The improved sensitivity (5sigma: T_B = 0.04 K) and resolution (15.5') of the HIPASS data results…

We present a high-resolution study of five high-velocity clouds in the Magellanic Leading Arm region. This is a follow-up study of our widefield Parkes survey of the region in order to probe the multiphase structures of the clouds and to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-15 B. Q. For , L. Staveley-Smith , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , T. Westmeier , K. Bekki

Observations from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) Survey of the tail of Complex C are presented and the halo clouds associated with this complex cataloged. The properties of the Complex C clouds are compared to clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-04-18 W. -H. Hsu , M. E. Putman , F. Heitsch , S. Stanimirovic , J. E. G. Peek , S. E. Clark

The VLA Galactic Plane Survey (VGPS) of the first Galactic quadrant was searched for HI emission with velocities well above the maximum velocity allowed by Galactic rotation. A sample of 17 small fast-moving clouds was identified. The…

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are interstellar gas clouds whose velocities are incompatible with Galactic rotation. Since the first discovery of HVCs in 1963, their origins have been debated for decades but are still not settled down, because…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-19 Yu-Ting Wang , Chao Liu , Zhi-Yu Zhang

Ten isolated compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) of the type cataloged by Braun & Burton (1999) have been imaged with the Arecibo telescope and were found to have a nested core/halo morphology. We argue that a combination of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 W. B. Burton , R. Braun , J. N. Chengalur

We derived the dust-to-HI ratio of the intermediate-velocity clouds (IVCs), the high-velocity clouds (HVCs), and the local HI gas, by carrying out a multiple-regression analysis of the 21cm HI emission combined with the sub-mm dust optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-24 Takahiro Hayakawa , Yasuo Fukui

Various scenarios have been proposed to explain the origin of the Galactic high-velocity clouds, predicting different distances and implying widely varying properties for the Galaxy's gaseous halo. To eliminate the difficulties of studying…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric D. Miller , Joel N. Bregman

We study the properties of all major HVC complexes from a sample compiled 1991 by Wakker & van Woerden (WvW). We use the Leiden/Argentine/Bonn all sky 21-cm line survey and decompose the profiles into Gaussian components. We find a well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Peter M. W. Kalberla , Urmas Haud

We have mapped 11 compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) in the 21-cm line emission of neutral, atomic hydrogen, using the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope. The aim of our observations was to study the overall distribution of the warm neutral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Westmeier , C. Bruens , J. Kerp

Neutral hydrogen mapping of several small, very low column density High Velocity Clouds (HVC), using the Arecibo telescope, is reported. Some were found serendipitously superimposed at distinct velocities on largerHVCs; others were found to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lyle Hoffman , E. E. Salpeter , Ajay Hirani

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