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We report the first detection of magnetic fields associated with the Smith High Velocity Cloud. We use a catalog of Faraday rotation measures towards extragalactic radio sources behind the Smith Cloud, new HI observations from the Green…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-11-05 Alex S. Hill , S. A. Mao , Robert A. Benjamin , Felix J. Lockman , Naomi M. McClure-Griffiths

We present Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper observations of ionized gas in the Smith Cloud, a high velocity cloud which Lockman et al. have recently suggested is interacting with the Galactic disk. Our H-alpha map shows the brightest H-alpha…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-09-17 Alex S. Hill , L. Matthew Haffner , Ronald J. Reynolds

New 21cm HI observations made with the Green Bank Telescope show that the high-velocity cloud known as Smith's Cloud has a striking cometary appearance and many indications of interaction with the Galactic ISM. The velocities of interaction…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Felix J. Lockman , Robert A. Benjamin , A. J. Heroux , Glen I. Langston

The Smith Cloud is a high-velocity cloud (HVC) on its final approach to the Milky Way that shows evidence of interaction with the Galaxy's disk. We investigate the metallicity and gas-phase chemical depletion patterns in this HVC using UV…

The Smith high velocity cloud (V(LSR) = 98 kms) has been observed at two locations in the emission lines [OIII]5007, [NII]6548 and H-alpha. Both the [NII] and H-alpha profiles show bright cores due to the Reynolds layer, and red wings with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Bland-Hawthorn , S. Veilleux , G. Cecil , M. Putman , B. Gibson , P. Maloney

We present findings of 3D filamentary structures in the Smith Cloud, a high-velocity cloud (HVC) located at $l=38^{\circ}$, $b=-13^{\circ}$. We use data from the Galactic Arecibo L-Band Feed Array \ion{H}{i} (GALFA-\ion{H}{i}) along with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-06 Colin Holm-Hansen , M. E. Putman , D. A. Kim

Motivated by the idea that a subset of HVCs trace dark matter substructure in the Local Group, we search for signs of star formation in the Smith Cloud, a nearby ~2x10^6 Msun HVC currently falling into the Milky Way. Using GALEX NUV and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 David V. Stark , Ashley D. Baker , Sheila J. Kannappan

The Smith Cloud is a gaseous high-velocity cloud (HVC) in an advanced state of accretion, only 2.9 kpc below the Galactic plane and due to impact the disk in 27 Myr. It is unique among HVCs in having a known distance (12.4+/-1.3 kpc) and a…

To date O2 has definitely been detected in only two sources, namely rho Oph A and Orion, reflecting the extremely low abundance of O2 in the interstellar medium. One of the sources in the HOP program is the +50 km/s Cloud in the Sgr A…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-12-09 Aa. Sandqvist , B. Larsson , Å. Hjalmarson , P. Encrenaz , M. Gerin , P. F. Goldsmith , D. C. Lis , R. Liseau , L. Pagani , E. Roueff , S. Viti

We report the results of a sensitive search for the 443.952902 GHz $J=1-0$ transition of the LiH molecule toward two interstellar clouds in the Milky Way, W49N and Sgr B2 (Main), that has been carried out using the Atacama Pathfinder…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-03-08 David Neufeld , Paul F. Goldsmith , Claudia Comito , Anika Schmiedeke

We present a 39 h integration with the Odin satellite on the ground-state 118.75 GHz line of O2 towards the region of strongest molecular emission in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Our 3sigma upper limit to the O2 integrated intensity of…

Hundreds of high-velocity atomic gas clouds exist above and below the Galactic Centre, with some containing a molecular component. However, the origin of these clouds in the Milky Way's wind is unclear. This paper presents new…

We have conducted OH 18 cm survey toward 141 molecular clouds in various environments, including 33 optical dark clouds, 98 Planck Galactic cold clumps (PGCCs) and 10 Spitzer dark clouds with the Arecibo telescope. The deviations from local…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-23 Ningyu Tang , Di Li , Nannan Yue , Pei Zuo , Tie Liu , Gan Luo , Longfei Chen , Sheng-Li Qin , Yuefang Wu , Carl Heiles

We present the results based on the 2.5 arcsec-resolution observations using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G-0.02-0.07, or the 50 km/s Molecular Cloud (50MC), in the SO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Ryosuke Miyawaki , Masato Tsuboi , Kenta Uehara , Atsushi Miyazaki

Using the Large Millimeter Telescope and the SEQUOIA 3~mm focal plane array, we have searched for molecular line emission from two atomic clouds associated with the Fermi Bubble of the Milky Way. Neither 12CO nor 13CO J=1-0 emission is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 M. Heyer , E. Di Teodoro , L. Loinard , F. J. Lockman , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , Q. D. Wang

This study presents a catalog of 8107 molecular clouds that covers the entire Galactic plane and includes 98% of the $^{12}$CO emission observed within $b\pm5^\circ$. The catalog was produced using a hierarchical cluster identification…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-11 Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschênes , Norman Murray , Eve J. Lee

Recent observations suggest that some high-velocity clouds may be confined by massive dark matter halos. In particular, the proximity and proposed dark matter content of the Smith Cloud make it a tempting target for the indirect detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-07-01 Alex Drlica-Wagner , German A. Gomez-Vargas , John W. Hewitt , Tim Linden , Luigi Tibaldo

We report the discovery of eleven high-velocity HI clouds at Galactic latitudes of 25-30 degrees, likely embedded in the Milky Way's nuclear wind. The clouds are detected with deep Green Bank Telescope 21 cm observations of a $3.2^\circ…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Rongmon Bordoloi , Andrew J. Fox , Felix J. Lockman

We have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a leading component of the Smith high velocity cloud that is now crossing the Galactic plane near longitude 25 degrees. Using new 21cm HI data from the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Felix J. Lockman , Robert A. Benjamin , Nicolas Pichette , Christopher Thibodeau

The OH molecule, found abundantly in the Milky Way, has four transitions at the ground state rotational level(J = 3/2) at cm wavelengths. These are E1 transitions between the F+ and F- hyperfine levels of the Lambda doublet of the J=3/2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-07-05 Visweshwar Ram Marthi , Jayaram N. Chengalur
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