Do High-Velocity Clouds Really Fuel Galactic Star Formation?
Abstract
Tantalizing evidence has been presented supporting the suggestion that a large population of extragalactic gas clouds permeates the Local Group, a population which has been associated with the Galactic High-Velocity Clouds (HVCs). We comment on both the strengths and weaknesses of this suggestion, informally referred to as the Blitz/Spergel picture. Theoretical predictions for the spatial and kinematic distributions, metallicities, distances, and emission properties of Blitz/Spergel HVCs will be confronted with extant observational data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009050,
title = {Do High-Velocity Clouds Really Fuel Galactic Star Formation?},
author = {Brad K. Gibson and Mark L. Giroux and John T. Stocke and J. Michael Shull},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009050},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
6 pages, LaTeX (newpasp, included), also available at http://casa.colorado.edu/~bgibson/publications.html, to appear in Gas & Galaxy Evolution (ASP Conf. Series), eds. J.E. Hibbard, M.P. Rupen & J.H. van Gorkom (2001, in press)