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High velocity gas that does not conform to Galactic rotation is observed throughout the Galaxy's halo. One component of this gas, HI high velocity clouds (HVCs), have attracted attention since their discovery in the 1960s and remain…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-24 Asger Grønnow , Thor Tepper-García , Joss Bland-Hawthorn , Naomi McClure-Griffiths

Using the 100-m radio telescope at Effelsberg, we mapped a large area around the Andromeda Galaxy in the 21-cm line emission of neutral hydrogen to search for high-velocity clouds (HVCs) out to large projected distances in excess of 100…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Tobias Westmeier , Christian Brüns , Jürgen Kerp

Observations show that galaxies in galaxy clusters are strongly influenced by their environment. There is growing evidence that some galaxies in groups show similar properties to galaxies in clusters, such as redder colours and gas…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-19 Helga Dénes , Virginia A. Kilborn , Bärbel S. Koribalski

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 calculate the coupled hydrostatic and ionization structures of pressure-supported gas clouds that are confined by gravitationally dominant dark-matter (DM) mini-halos and by an external bounding pressure provided by a hot medium. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 A. Sternberg , C. F. McKee , M. G. Wolfire

Compact groups (CGs) of galaxies appear to be the densest galaxy systems containing a few luminous galaxies in close proximity to each other, which have a typical size of a few tens kilopacsec in observation. On the other hand, in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-20 Yunliang Zheng , Shiyin Shen

The spatial clustering properties of HI galaxies can be studied using the formalism of the halo occupation distribution (HOD). The resulting parameter constraints describe properties like gas richness verses environment. Unfortunately,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Stuart Wyithe , Michael J. I. Brown

Hickson Compact Groups (HCGs) are dense configurations of 4 to 10 galaxies, whose HI (neutral gas) morphology appears to follow an evolutionary sequence of three phases, with gas initially confined to galaxies, then significant amounts…

We present an optically-selected catalog of 1073 galaxy cluster and group candidates at 0.3<z<1. These candidates are drawn from the Las Campanas Distant Clusters Survey (LCDCS), a drift-scan imaging survey of a 130 square degree strip of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony H. Gonzalez , Dennis Zaritsky , Julianne J. Dalcanton , Amy Nelson

I present the results of a search for intergalactic hydrogen clouds in voids. Clouds are detected by their HI LyA absorption lines in the HST spectra of low-redshift AGN. The parameter with which the environments of clouds are characterized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. V. Manning

We combine HI 21cm observations of the Milky Way, M31, and the local galaxy population with QSO absorption-line measurements to geometrically model the three-dimensional distribution of infalling neutral gas clouds (HVCs) in the extended…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philipp Richter

The low Galactic halo is enveloped by a sheath of ionized, low-metallicity gas, which can provide a substantial (1 M_sun/yr) cooling inflow to replenish star formation in the disk. Using absorption spectra from the HST and FUSE toward 37…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 J. Michael Shull , Jennifer R. Jones , Charles W. Danforth , Joseph A. Collins

A set of HI sources extracted from the north Galactic polar region by the ongoing ALFALFA survey has properties that are consistent with the interpretation that they are associated with isolated minihalos in the outskirts of the Local Group…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Riccardo Giovanelli , Martha P. Haynes , Brian R. Kent , Elizabeth K. Adams

In the spectra of 139 early-type Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) stars observed with FUSE and with deep radio Parkes HI 21-cm observations along those stars, we search for and analyze the absorption and emission from high-velocity gas at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-08-24 N. Lehner , L. Staveley-Smith , J. C. Howk

Isolated compact groups of galaxies (CGs) present a range of dynamical states, group velocity dispersions, and galaxy morphologies with which to study galaxy evolution, particularly the properties of gas both within the galaxies and in the…

The results of the interaction between the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds are revealed through several high velocity complexes which are connected to the Clouds. The exact mechanism of their formation is under some debate, but they…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. E. Putman

Void galaxies, residing within the deepest underdensities of the Cosmic Web, present an ideal population for the study of galaxy formation and evolution in an environment undisturbed by the complex processes modifying galaxies in clusters…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Kreckel , E. Platen , M. A. Aragón-Calvo , J. H. van Gorkom , R. van de Weygaert , J. M. van der Hulst , K. Kovač , C. -W. Yip , P. J. E. Peebles

We have carried out a sensitive high-latitude (|b| > 15deg.) HI 21cm-line absorption survey towards 102 sources using the GMRT. With a 3-sigma detection limit in optical depth of ~0.01, this is the most sensitive HI absorption survey. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rekhesh Mohan , K. S. Dwarakanath , G. Srinivasan

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are multi-phase gas structures whose velocities (|v_LSR|>100 km/s) are too high to be explained by Galactic disk rotation. While large HVCs are well characterized, compact and small HVCs (with HI angular sizes of…

Very sensitive HI 21cm observations have been made in 860 directions at dec >= -43deg in search of weak, Galactic, high-velocity HI emission lines at moderate and high Galactic latitudes. One-third of the observations were made toward…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman , Edward M. Murphy , Sara Petty-Powell , Vincent J. Urick