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We present the results based on the 2.5 arcsec-resolution observations using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of the Galactic Center Molecular Cloud G-0.02-0.07, or the 50 km/s Molecular Cloud (50MC), in the SO…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-30 Ryosuke Miyawaki , Masato Tsuboi , Kenta Uehara , Atsushi Miyazaki

Traditionally IVC and HVC were defined to be concentrations of HI gas, with line-of-sight velocities that are inconsistent with data on the differential rotation of the Galaxy. We demonstrate that IVCs and HVCs can be identified from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Urmas Haud

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 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

Neutral hydrogen mapping of several small, very low column density High Velocity Clouds (HVC), using the Arecibo telescope, is reported. Some were found serendipitously superimposed at distinct velocities on largerHVCs; others were found to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Lyle Hoffman , E. E. Salpeter , Ajay Hirani

In this paper we present new and improved data on 38 cool white dwarfs identified by Oppenheimer et al. 2001 (OHDHS) as candidate dark halo objects. Using the high-res spectra obtained with LRIS, we measure radial velocities for 13 WDs that…

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

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

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 have observed 11 compact high-velocity clouds in the 21-cm line of neutral hydrogen with the 100-m telescope in Effelsberg. Our observations show that most of the clouds have a rather complex morphology. Head-tail structures and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Westmeier , C. Bruens , J. Kerp

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

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

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 High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs) observed in the Galactic neighbourhood, have been proposed to be remnants of the formation of the galaxies in the Local Group, having distances, and thus masses, predominantly of dark matter, considerably…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Lopez-Corredoira , J. E. Beckman , E. Casuso

The Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array HI (GALFA-HI) survey is mapping the entire Arecibo sky at 21-cm, over a velocity range of -700 to +700 km/s (LSR), at a velocity resolution of 0.18 km/s and a spatial resolution of 3.5 arcmin. The…

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 have recently used the Hubble Space Telescope to study a pair of high velocity clouds in the direction of Mrk 509 that have unusual ionization properties. They exhibit strong CIV absorption with little or no low ion absorption or HI 21cm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth R. Sembach , Blair D. Savage , Limin Lu , Edward M. Murphy

We have used infrared and radio observations to search for a dwarf galaxy associated with the high-velocity cloud (HVC) known as Complex H. Complex H is a large (> 400 deg^2) and probably nearby (d = 27 kpc) HVC whose location in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Joshua D. Simon , Leo Blitz , Andrew A. Cole , Martin D. Weinberg , Martin Cohen

Using an analytic model calibrated against numerical simulations, we calculate the central densities of dark matter halos in a ``conventional'' cold dark matter model with a cosmological constant (LCDM) and in a ``tilted'' model (TLCDM)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. M. Khairul Alam , James S. Bullock , David H. Weinberg

Our view of the high velocity cloud (HVC) system is changing dramatically with new observations from the Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer mission and the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. In…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth R. Sembach