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New 21 cm HI observations have revealed a giant HI cloud in the Galactic plane that has unusual properties. It is quite well defined, about 150 pc in diameter at a distance of 5 kpc, and contains as much as 100,000 Solar Masses of atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anthony H. Minter , Felix J. Lockman , Glen I. Langston , Jennifer A. Lockman

Using 21cm HI observations from the Parkes Radio Telescope's Galactic All-Sky Survey, we measure 255 HI clouds in the lower Galactic halo that are located near the tangent points at 16.9 < l < 35.3 degrees and |b| < 20 degrees. The clouds…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 H. Alyson Ford , Felix J. Lockman , N. M. McClure-Griffiths

We compare the CO J =(1-0) and HI emission in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in three dimensions, i.e. including a velocity axis in addition to the two spatial axes, with the aim of elucidating the physical connection between giant…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 Y. Fukui , A. Kawamura , T. Wong , M. Murai , H. Iritani , N. Mizuno , Y. Mizuno , T. Onishi , A. Hughes , J. Ott , E. Muller , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim

The Galactic edge at Galactocentric distances of 14\,--\,22\,kpc provides an ideal laboratory to study molecular clouds in an environment that is different from the solar neighborhood, due to its lower gas density, lower metallicity, and…

HI 21 cm observations with the NRAO 140 Foot telescope have revealed a giant HI cloud (G28.17+0.05) in the Galactic plane that has unusual properties. The cloud is 150 pc in diameter, is at a distance of 5 kpc, and contains as much as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anthony Minter , Felix J. Lockman

We present a detailed analysis comparing the velocity fields in molecular clouds and the atomic gas that surrounds them in order to address the origin of the gradients. To that end, we present first-moment intensity-weighted velocity maps…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Imara , L. Blitz

We report the first high-resolution (sub-arcminute) large-scale mapping $^{12}$CO and $^{13}$CO observations of the molecular clouds associated with the giant outer Galaxy HII region CTB~102 (KR 1). These observations were made using a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-08 Brandon Marshall , Sung-ju Kang , C. R. Kerton , Youngsik Kim , Minho Choi , Miju Kang

Current observations favour that the massive ultraviolet-bright clumps with a median stellar mass of $\sim 10^7~M_{\odot}$, ubiquitously observed in $z\sim 1-3$ galaxies, are star-forming regions formed in-situ in galaxies. It has been…

In order to precisely determine temperature and density of molecular gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we made observations of optically thin $^{13}$CO($J=3-2$) transition by using the ASTE 10m telescope toward 9 peaks where…

We analyze the gamma-ray emission from 9 high latitude, translucent molecular clouds taken with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) between 250 MeV and 10 GeV. Observations of gamma-rays allow us to probe the density and spectrum of cosmic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. D. Abrahams , T. A. D. Paglione

We present molecular line mapping of the Giant Molecular Cloud G1.6-0.025, which is located at the high longitude end of the Central Molecular Zone of our Galaxy. We assess the degree of star formation activity in that region using several…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Karl M. Menten , Robert W. Wilson , Silvia Leurini , Peter Schilke

We investigate how the properties of Galactic giant molecular clouds (GMCs) and their denser substructures (clumps) correlate with the local star formation rate. We trace clouds using the $^{12}$CO(3-2) transition, as observed by the CO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 Erika Zetterlund , Jason Glenn , Erik Rosolowsky

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 present a catalog of dust clouds at high Galactic latitude based on the Planck 857 GHz dust emission data. Using a clustering hierarchical algorithm, 315 dust cloud at high Galactic latitudes are identified. Additionally, using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-14 Mingxu Sun , Biwei Jiang , Helong Guo , Wenyuan Cui

We present the first comparative study of extragalactic GMCs using complete data sets for entire galaxies and a uniform set of reduction and analysis techniques. We present results based on CO observations for the LMC, SMC, M33, M31, IC10…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Leo Blitz , Yasuo Fukui , Akiko Kawamura , Adam Leroy , Norikazu Mizuno , Erik Rosolowsky

We present a large catalogue of molecular clouds with accurate distance estimates in the southern sky. Based on the three-dimensional (3D) dust extinction map and the best-fit extinction and distance information of over 17 million stars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-23 Helong Guo , Bingqiu Chen , Xiaowei Liu

The Galactic distribution of the high-latitude molecular clouds is considered. It is suggested that the majority of these clouds are clustered in two large shells around the two closest OB associations, Per OB3/Cas-Tau and Sco OB2. The most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. C. Bhatt

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 have made an unbiased survey for molecular clouds in the Galactic Warp. This survey, covering an area of 56 square degrees at l = 252 deg to 266 deg and b = -5 deg to -1 deg, has revealed 70 molecular clouds, while only 6 clouds were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masanori Nakagawa , T. Onishi , A. Mizuno , Y. Fukui

The extra-planar H I in the inner parts of the Milky Way has been discovered to contain numerous cloud-like structures when observed in the 21cm line with the Green Bank Telescope (GBT). These halo clouds have motions consistent with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Felix J. Lockman , Yurii Pidopryhora