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We report results from a survey of high velocity clouds and the Magellanic Stream for faint, diffuse optical recombination emission lines. We detect H-alpha emission with surface brightness from 41 to 1680 milli-Rayleighs (mR) from HVCs,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin J. Weiner , Stuart N. Vogel , T. B. Williams

We present a catalog of high-velocity CIV $\lambda$ 1548,1551 mini-Broad Absorption Lines (mini-BALs) in the archives of the VLT-UVES and Keck-HIRES spectrographs. We identify high-velocity CIV mini-BALs based on smooth rounded BAL-like…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-03 Chen Chen , Fred Hamann , Bo Ma , Michael Murphy

Recent observations in the 21cm line with the Green Bank Telescope have changed our view of the neutral interstellar medium (ISM) in several ways. The new data show that in the inner parts of the Milky Way the disk-halo interface is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Felix J. Lockman

A set of diffuse interstellar clouds in the inner Galaxy within a few hundred pc of the Galactic plane has been observed at an angular resolution of ~1 arcmin combining data from the NRAO Green Bank Telescope and the Very Large Array. At…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Yurii Pidopryhora , Felix J. Lockman , John M. Dickey , Michael P. Rupen

A head-tail high-velocity cloud (HVC) is a neutral hydrogen halo cloud that appears to be interacting with the diffuse halo medium as evident by its compressed head trailed by a relatively diffuse tail. This paper presents a sample of 116…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 M. E. Putman , D. R. Saul , E. Mets

We report on the detection of low-column density neutral hydrogen clumps in the halo of the Milky Way. Using high-resolution (FWHM~7 km/s) optical spectra obtained with the VLT/UVES spectrograph we detect narrow interstellar absorption by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Philipp Richter , Tobias Westmeier , Christian Bruens

We carried out a survey for high-metallicity C IV absorbers at redshift z ~ 2.3 in the spectra of 9 high-quality quasar spectra. Using a novel analysis technique, based on detections of C IV lines and automatically determined upper limits…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joop Schaye , Robert F. Carswell , Tae-Sun Kim

We present the first results on the diffuse transition clouds observed in [CII] line emission at 158 microns (1.9 THz) towards Galactic longitudes near 340deg (5 LOSs) and 20deg (11 LOSs) as part of the GOT C+ survey. Out of the total 146…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 T. Velusamy , W. D. Langer , J. L. Pineda , P. F. Goldsmith , D. Li. , H. W. Yorke

We study the physical conditions of the circum-galactic medium (CGM) around z=0.25 galaxies as traced by HI and metal line absorption, using cosmological hydrodynamic simulations that include galactic outflows. Using lines of sight targeted…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Amanda Brady Ford , Benjamin D. Oppenheimer , Romeel Davé , Neal Katz , Juna A. Kollmeier , David H. Weinberg

We combine the catalogs of compact high-velocity HI clouds extracted from the LDS and HIPASS surveys and analyze the all-sky properties of the ensemble. Five principal observables are defined for the CHVC population: (1) the spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. de Heij , R. Braun , W. B. Burton

As part of the Deciphering the Interplay between the Interstellar medium, Stars, and the Circumgalactic medium (DIISC) survey, we present the UV metal absorption features in the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) near the H I gas disk…

We report the detection of highly-ionized gas at z~0 seen in resonant UV and X-ray absorption lines toward the z=0.03 blazar Mkn 421. A total of 13 X-ray and 3 UV lines were measured (or upper limits derived), including three lines in the…

Absorption lines at high redshift in front of quasars are rare in the mm domain. Only five associated and five intervening systems have been reported in the literature. These bring very useful information complementary to emission lines,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-19 Francoise Combes , Neeraj Gupta

From our position embedded within the Milky Way's interstellar medium (ISM), we have limited ability to detect gas at low relative velocities in the extended Galactic halo because those spectral lines are blended with much stronger signals…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-21 Hannah V. Bish , Jessica K. Werk , Joshua Peek , Yong Zheng , Mary Putman

By comparing sensitive Spitzer Space Telescope (SST) infrared and Green Bank Telescope 21 cm observations, we are able to report the first detection of dust emission in Complex C, the largest High Velocity Cloud in the sky. Dust in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. -A. Miville-Deschenes , F. Boulanger , W. T. Reach , A. Noreiga-Crespo

The Complex of Local Interstellar Clouds (CLIC) is a relatively tight grouping of low density, warm, partially ionized clouds within about 15 pc of the Solar System. The Local Interstellar Cloud (LIC) is the cloud observed on most lines of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jonathan D. Slavin

In this paper we use a number of observations to construct an integrated picture of the ionisation in the interiors of quiescent warm opaque interstellar clouds and in the intercloud medium (ICM) outside dense HII regions and hot dilute…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. W. Sciama

We present predictions of the Si iv ions in turbulent mixing layers (TMLs) between hot and cool gas and in cool high-velocity clouds (HVCs) that travel through a hot halo, complementing the C iv, N v, and O vi predictions in Kwak & Shelton,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-19 Kyujin Kwak , Robin L. Shelton , David B. Henley

(Abridged) We present a new high-resolution (7 km/s FWHM) echelle spectrum of 3C 351 obtained with STIS. 3C 351 lies behind the low-latitude edge of high-velocity cloud Complex C, and the new spectrum provides accurate measurements of O I,…

In the last few years, prominent high-ionization nebular emission lines (i.e., OIII], CIII], CIV, HeII) have been observed in the deep UV spectra of z~5-7 galaxies, indicating that extreme radiation fields characterize reionization-era…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-12 Danielle A. Berg , John Chisholm , Dawn K. Erb , Richard Pogge , Alaina Henry , Grace M. Olivier