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Context. The HI distribution at high Galactic latitudes is found to be filamentary and closely related to the far infrared (FIR) in caustics with coherent velocity structures. These structures trace the orientation of the magnetic field…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-04 P. M. W. Kalberla

H$_{\rm I}$ 21-cm and $^{12}$CO 2.6-mm line emissions respectively trace the atomic and molecular gas phases, but they miss most of the opaque H$_{\rm I}$ and diffuse H$_2$ present in the Dark Neutral Medium (DNM) at the transition between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-03-28 Q. Remy , I. A. Grenier , D. J. Marshall , J. M. Casandjian

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 show 21-cm line profiles in the direction of stars and extragalactic objects, lying projected on high- and intermediate-velocity clouds (HVCs and IVCs). About half of these are from new data obtained with the Effelsberg 100-m telescope,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. P. Wakker , P. M. W. Kalberla , H. van Woerden , K. S. de Boer , M. E. Putman

The Cold Neutral Medium (CNM) is an important part of the galactic gas cycle and a precondition for the formation of molecular and star forming gas, yet its distribution is still not fully understood. In this work we present extremely high…

The 21 cm hyperfine transition of the atomic hydrogen (HI) in ground state is a powerful probe of the neutral gas content of the universe. This radio frequency transition has been used routinely for decades to observe, both in emission and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-26 Preetha Saha , Nirupam Roy , Mukul Bhattacharya

A population of discrete HI clouds in the halo of the inner Galaxy has been discovered in 21cm observations made with the Green Bank Telescope. The halo clouds are seen up to 1.5 kpc from the Galactic plane at many longitudes. Their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Felix J. Lockman

The Galactic Cold Cores (GCC) project has made Herschel observations of interstellar clouds where Planck detected compact sources of cold dust emission. Our aim is to characterise the structure of the clumps and their parent clouds. We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-20 M. Juvela , J. Malinen , J. Montillaud , V. -M. Pelkonen , I. Ristorcelli , L. V. Toth

Resolving the phase structure of neutral hydrogen (HI) is crucial for understanding the life cycle of the interstellar medium (ISM). However, accurate measurements of HI temperature and density are limited by the availability of background…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-19 Claire E. Murray , J. E. G. Peek , Chang-Goo Kim

We develop a new method to constrain the physical conditions in the cool (~10^4 K) circumgalactic medium (CGM) from measurements of ionic column densities, by assuming that the cool CGM spans a large range of gas densities and that small…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-26 Jonathan Stern , Joseph F. Hennawi , J. Xavier Prochaska , Jessica K. Werk

We present measurements of the H I spin temperatures (T_s) of the Cold Neutral Medium (CNM) towards radio sources that are closely aligned with stars for which published H_2 ortho-para temperatures (T_{01}) are available from UV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nirupam Roy , Jayaram N. Chengalur , Raghunathan Srianand

Chlorine and molecular hydrogen are known to be tightly linked together in the cold phase of the local interstellar medium through rapid chemical reactions. We present here the first systematic study of this relation at high redshifts using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 S. A. Balashev , P. Noterdaeme , V. V. Klimenko , P. Petitjean , R. Srianand , C. Ledoux , A. V. Ivanchik , D. A. Varshalovich

We report Arecibo 21 cm absorption-emission observations to characterise the physical properties of neutral hydrogen (HI) in the proximity of five giant molecular clouds (GMCs): Taurus, California, Rosette, Mon OB1, and NGC 2264. Strong HI…

We present new measurements of the temperature-density (T-rho) relation for neutral hydrogen in the 2.0 < z < 2.8 intergalactic medium (IGM) using a sample of ~6000 individual HI absorbers fitted with Voigt profiles constrained in all cases…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Gwen C. Rudie , Charles C. Steidel , Max Pettini

We present spectral line images of [CI] 809 GHz, CO J=1-0 115 GHz and HI 1.4 GHz line emission, and calculate the corresponding C, CO and H column densities, for a sinuous, quiescent Giant Molecular Cloud about 5 kpc distant along the…

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 present a measurement of the HI column density distribution function, f(N), at the present epoch for column densities log N > 20 cm^-2. These high column densities compare to those measured in damped Ly alpha lines seen in absorption…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Martin Zwaan , Marc Verheijen , Frank Briggs

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

We report the first ensemble results from the FUSE survey of molecular hydrogen in lines of sight with A_V $\gtrsim$ 1 mag. We have developed techniques for fitting computed profiles to the low-J lines of H2, and thus determining column…

We have observed a 3 degree x 3 degree area centered on the M81/M82 group of galaxies using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in a search for analogs to the High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) of neutral hydrogen found around our…