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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

We present the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey, and its first full data release (DR1). GALFA-HI is a high resolution (~ 4'), large area (13000 deg^2), high spectral resolution (0.18 km/s), wide band (-700 < v_LSR <…

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

We present Arecibo L-band Feed Array 21-cm observations of a sub-complex of HVCs at the tip of the Anti-Center Complex. These observations show morphological details that point to interaction with the ambient halo medium and differential…

Neutral hydrogen clouds are found in the Milky Way and Andromeda halo both as large complexes and smaller isolated clouds. Here we present a search for Hi clouds in the halo of M33, the third spiral galaxy of the Local Group. We have used…

We have observed six `dark' neutral hydrogen (HI) clouds discovered in the Virgo cluster by the Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), giving higher angular and velocity resolution than the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-28 Robert Minchin , Rhys Taylor , Emmanuel Momjian , Boris Deshev , Vojtěch Partík

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 have observed 11 compact high-velocity clouds in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen with the 100-m telescope in Effelsberg. Our observations show that most of the clouds have a rather complex morphology. Head-tail structures and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Westmeier , C. Bruens , J. Kerp

Five galaxy groups with properties similar to those of the Local Group have been surveyed for HI clouds with the Arecibo Telescope. In total 300 pointings have been observed on grids of approximately 2.5 x 1.5 Mpc centred on the groups. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Martin Zwaan

We have observed the NGC 2403 group of galaxies using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in a search for faint, extended neutral hydrogen clouds similar to the clouds found around the M81/M82 group, which is located approximately…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Katie M. Chynoweth , Glen I. Langston , Kelly Holley-Bockelmann , Felix J. Lockman

Using Milky Way data of the new Effelsberg-Bonn HI Survey (EBHIS) and the Galactic All-Sky Survey (GASS), we present a revised picture of the high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex Galactic Center Negative (GCN). Owing to the higher angular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Benjamin Winkel , Nadya Ben Bekhti , Verena Darmstädter , Lars Flöer , Jürgen Kerp , Philipp Richter

We have recently identified several high velocity (V < -100 km/s) clouds in the directions of Mrk 509 and PKS 2155-304 that have unusual ionization properties. The clouds exhibit strong C IV absorption with little or no detectable low ion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kenneth R. Sembach , Blair D. Savage , Limin Lu , Edward M. Murphy

Studies of the Milky Way's disk-halo interface have historically identified inflowing and outflowing gas incompatible with disk rotation on the basis of radial velocity, leading to the well-known categories of intermediate-velocity clouds…

The discovery of a previously unknown 21cm HI line source identified as an ultra-compact high velocity cloud in the ALFALFA survey is reported. The HI detection is barely resolved by the Arecibo 305m telescope ~4' beam and has a narrow HI…

We characterize the kinematic and magnetic properties of HI filaments located in a high Galactic latitude region ($165^\circ < \alpha < 195^\circ$ and $12^\circ < \delta < 24^\circ$). We extract three-dimensional filamentary structures…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-09-20 Doyeon Avery Kim , Susan E Clark , Mary E Putman , Larry Li

Parkes neutral hydrogen 21 cm line (HI) observations of the surroundings of 9 early-type Local Group dwarfs are presented. We detected numerous HI clouds in the general direction of those dwarfs and these clouds are often offset from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Bouchard , C. Carignan , L. Staveley-Smith

Aperture synthesis observations of two HI cloud complexes located in the periphery of the Virgo galaxy cluster are presented. These low HI-mass clouds ($M_{HI}<$ 10$^{9}$) are seen projected on the M region of the western Virgo cluster,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Brian R. Kent

We report the results of a photometric search for giant stars associated with the cores of four high velocity clouds (HVCs) -- two of which are compact HVCs -- using the Las Campanas Du Pont 2.5 meter and Cerro Tololo Blanco 4 meter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. H. Siegel , S. R. Majewski , C. Gallart , S. Sohn , W. E. Kunkel , R. Braun

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

We use spectroscopic data from HST and FUSE to study the wide range of ionization states of the "highly ionized high-velocity clouds". Studied extensively in OVI absorption, these clouds are usually assumed to be infalling gas in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Collins , J. M. Shull , M. L. Giroux