English
Related papers

Related papers: H-alpha from High Velocity Clouds

200 papers

We report on observations of several optical emission lines toward a variety of newly revealed faint, large-scale H-alpha-emitting structures in the warm ionized medium (WIM) of the Galaxy. The lines include [N II] 6583, [N II] 5755, [S II]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. J. Madsen

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) has surveyed the distribution and kinematics of ionized gas in the Galaxy above declination -30 degrees. The WHAM Northern Sky Survey (WHAM-NSS) has an angular resolution of one degree and provides the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds , S. L. Tufte , G. J. Madsen , K. P. Jaehnig , J. W. Percival

The high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in the outer Milky Way at $20^{\circ} < l < 190^{\circ}$ have similar spatial locations, metallicities, and kinematics. Moreover, their locations and kinematics are coincident with several extraplanar stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-21 Todd M. Tripp

We present search results of 22 high latitude (b > 25 deg.) sightlines for OH 18-cm emission using the 305-m radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory. These sightlines appear in neutral hydrogen emission at intermediate velocities (V_lsr…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-05-10 Allison Smith , D. Anish Roshi

We provide new post-COSTAR data on one sightline (Mrk 421) and updated data from another (I Zw 1) from our Hubble Space Telescope (HST) survey of intergalactic Lyman-alpha clouds located along sightlines to four bright quasars passing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Michael Shull , John T. Stocke , Steve Penton

We have used the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) facility to measure the interstellar H-Alpha emission toward the high Galactic latitude O star HD 93521 (l = 183.1, b = +62.2). Three emission components were detected having radial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 N. R. Hausen , R. J. Reynolds , L. M. Haffner , S. L. Tufte

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 study an undocumented large translucent cloud, detected by means of its enhanced radiation on the SHASSA (Southern H-Alpha Sky Survey Atlas) survey. We consider whether its excess surface brightness can be explained by light scattered…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 K. Lehtinen , M. Juvela , K. Mattila

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…

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

Interstellar neutral hydrogen (HI) emission spectra manifest several families of linewidths whose numerical values (34, 13 & 6 km/s) appear to be related to the critical ionization velocities (CIVs) of the most abundant interstellar atomic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gerrit L. Verschuur

During the initial data reduction of the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) H-Alpha Sky Survey, we have discovered several very long (~30--80 deg) filaments superimposed on the diffuse H-Alpha background. These features have no clear…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. M. Haffner , R. J. Reynolds , S. L. Tufte

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 that neutral hydrogen (HI) gas clouds, resembling High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed in the Milky Way (MW), appear in MW-sized disk galaxies formed in high-resolution Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) cosmological simulations which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tim W. Connors , Daisuke Kawata , Jeremy Bailin , Jason Tumlinson , Brad K. Gibson

We present a catalogue of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) from the Galactic All Sky Survey (GASS) of southern-sky neutral hydrogen, which has 57 mK sensitivity and 1 km/s velocity resolution and was obtained with the Parkes Telescope. Our…

We report a new search for 12CO(1-0) emission in high-velocity clouds (HVCs) performed with the IRAM 30 m telescope. This search was motivated by the recent detection of cold dust emission in the HVCs of Complex C. Despite a spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Dessauges-Zavadsky , F. Combes , D. Pfenniger

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

Previous HST and FUSE observations have revealed highly ionized high-velocity clouds (HVCs) or more generally low HI column HVCs along extragalactic sightlines over 70-90% of the sky. The distances of these HVCs have remained largely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

We model the kinematics of the high- and intermediate- velocity clouds (HVCs and IVCs) observed in absorption towards a sample of 55 Galactic halo stars with accurate distance measurements. We employ a simple model of a thick disc whose…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 A. Marasco , F. Fraternali , N. Lehner , J. C. Howk

High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are composed of neutral hydrogen (HI) moving at velocities that deviate from the general rotational motion of the Milky Way. Currently, the origins of the HVCs remain poorly known due to the difficulty in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-15 Xiao-Lan Liu , Jin-Long Xu , Peng Jiang , Ming Zhu , Chuan-Peng Zhang , Naiping Yu , Ye Xu , Xin Guan , Jun-Jie Wang