scholarly journals High-Velocity Clouds and the Local Group

2004 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 2-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. P. Wakker
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Current Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
Hα Emission ◽  
M 31 ◽  
High Velocity Clouds

I examine some of the evidence relevant to the idea that high-velocity clouds (HVCs) are gas clouds distributed throughout the Local Group, as proposed by Blitz et al. (1999) and Braun & Burton (1999). This model makes several predictions: a) the clouds have low metallicities; b) there should be no detectable Hα emission; c) analogues near other galaxies should exist; and d) many faint HVCs in the region around M 31 can be found. Low metallicities are indeed found in several HVCs, although they are also expected in several other models. Hα emission detected in most HVCs and, when examined more closely, distant (D>200 kpc) HVCs should be almost fully ionized, implying that most HVCs with H I must lie near the Milky Way. No clear extragalactic analogues have been found, even though the current data appear sensitive enough. The final prediction (d) has not yet been tested. on balance there appears to be no strong evidence for neutral gas clouds distributed throughout the Local Group, but there may be many such clouds within 100 or so kpc from the Milky Way (and M31). on the other hand, some (but not all) of the high-velocity O VI recently discovered may originate in hot gas distributed throughout the Local Group.

scholarly journals Observations of high velocity HI clouds in the Local Group

1978 ◽  
Vol 79 ◽  
pp. 49-49
Author(s):  
W.K. Huchtmeier
Keyword(s):  
Radio Telescope ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Neutral Hydrogen ◽  
Beam Width ◽  
Late Type ◽  
M 31 ◽  
High Velocity Clouds ◽  
Half Power ◽  
Magellanic Stream

High velocity clouds (HVC) of neutral hydrogen in or around our galaxy and the observations of intergalactic HI in the Local group: Magellanic stream (Mathewson et al., 1974, Astrophys. J. 190, p. 291), M 31 (Davies, R.D., 1975, Mon. Not. R. astr. Soc., 170, p. 45P), and in the Sculptor group of galaxies (Mathewson et al., 1975, Astrophys. J. 195, p. L97) motivated us to search for HVC-phenomena in a number of nearby late-type galaxies with the 100 m Effelsberg radio telescope which has a half power beam width of 8.5′ at the wavelength of 21 cm.

scholarly journals Neutral Gas Outside the Disks of Local Group Galaxies

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (S321) ◽  
pp. 223-225
Author(s):  
Felix J. Lockman
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Dwarf Galaxies ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
High Velocity Clouds ◽  
Circumgalactic Medium ◽  
Magellanic Stream ◽  
Green Bank Telescope

AbstractOf the three kinds of neutral gas found outside the stellar disks of Local Group galaxies, only the products of interaction, like the Magellanic Stream, have a clearly understandable origin. Both the high-velocity clouds and the faint H I between M31 and M33 remain a mystery. New observations of the region between M31 and M33 with the Green Bank Telescope show that the H I there resides in clouds with a size and mass similar to that of dwarf galaxies, but without stars. These clouds might be products of an interaction, or condensations in the hot circumgalactic medium of M31, but both these models have difficulties. The prevalence of clouds like this in the Local Group remains to be determined.

scholarly journals High-velocity clouds as streams of ionized and neutral gas in the halo of the Milky Way

2012 ◽  
Vol 424 (4) ◽  
pp. 2896-2913 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Lehner ◽  
J. C. Howk ◽  
C. Thom ◽  
A. J. Fox ◽  
J. Tumlinson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
High Velocity Clouds

scholarly journals The High-Velocity Clouds: Galactic or Extragalactic?

1997 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 467-470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo van Woerden ◽  
Bart P. Wakker ◽  
Ulrich J. Schwarz ◽  
Reynier F. Peletier ◽  
Peter M.W. Kalberla
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Galactic Plane ◽  
Vertical Distance ◽  
High Velocity Clouds ◽  
Lower Limits ◽  
Firm Evidence ◽  
Milky Way Halo

AbstractWe present firm evidence that one of the major high velocity clouds (HVCs), Complex A, lies in the Milky Way Halo, at a vertical distance z = 3 - 7 kpc from the Galactic plane. For clouds MII/MIII, Danly et al. and Keenan et al. had already found z < 5 kpc. We further report that the metallicity in the largest HVC, Complex C, is at least 0.1 solar. Call/Hi ratios in 6 HVCs, ranging from 0.002 to 0.07 times solar, set lower limits to their metallicities.Blitz et al. have recently suggested that most of the HVCs are relatively unprocessed, extragalactic remnants of the gas which formed the Local Group of galaxies. However, the results mentioned above indicate that several major HVC complexes are neither primordial nor extragalactic. For the smaller HVCs, some of which have much higher velocities, a location in the Local Group remains a possibility.

scholarly journals A population of high-velocity absorption-line systems residing in the Local Group

2019 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. A20 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. D. Bouma ◽  
P. Richter ◽  
C. Fechner
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Data ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
Entire Range ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Galactic Halo ◽  
Trace Gas ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
High Velocity Clouds

Aims. We investigated the ionisation conditions and distances of Galactic high-velocity clouds (HVCs) in the Galactic halo and beyond in the direction of the Local Group (LG) barycentre and anti-barycentre, by studying spectral data of 29 extragalactic background sources obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectropgraph (COS) installed on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Methods. We model column-densities of low, intermediate, and high ions such as Si II, C II, Si III, Si VI, and C IV, and use these data to construct a set of Cloudy ionisation models. Results. In total, we found 69 high-velocity absorption components along the 29 lines of sight. The components in the direction of the LG barycentre span the entire range of studied velocities, 100 ≲ |vLSR| ≲ 400 km s−1, while those in the anti-barycentre sample have velocities up to about 300 km s−1. For 49 components, we infer the gas densities. In the direction of the LG barycentre, the gas densities exhibit a wide range from log nH = −3.96 to −2.55, while in the anti-barycentre direction the densities are systematically higher, log nH >  −3.25. The barycentre absorbers can be split into two groups based on their density: a high-density group with log nH >  −3.54, which can be affected by the Milky Way radiation field, and a low-density group (log nH ≤ −3.54). The latter has very low thermal pressures of P/k <  7.3 K cm−3. Conclusions. Our study shows that part of the absorbers in the LG barycentre direction trace gas at very low gas densities and thermal pressures. These properties indicate that the absorbers are located beyond the virial radius of the Milky Way. Our study also confirms results from earlier, single-sightline studies, suggesting the presence of a metal-enriched intragroup medium filling the LG near its barycentre.

scholarly journals H I observations of three compact high-velocity clouds around the Milky Way

2014 ◽  
Vol 563 ◽  
pp. A99 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Faridani ◽  
L. Flöer ◽  
J. Kerp ◽  
T. Westmeier
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
High Velocity Clouds

scholarly journals Morphological Characteristics of Compact High-Velocity Clouds Revealed by High-Resolution WSRT Imaging

2000 ◽  
Vol 174 ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
W. B. Burton ◽  
R. Braun
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
High Resolution ◽  
High Velocity ◽  
Physical State ◽  
Local Group ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Kinetic Temperature ◽  
High Resolution Imaging ◽  
Resolution Imaging ◽  
High Velocity Clouds

AbstractA class of compact, isolated high–velocity clouds which plausibly represents a homogeneous subsample of the HVC phenomenon in a single physical state was objectively identified by Braun and Burton (1999). Six examples of the CHVCs, unresolved in single–dish data, have been imaged with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope. The high–resolution imaging reveals the morphology of these objects, including a core/halo distribution of fluxes, signatures of rotation indicating dark matter, and narrow linewidths constraining the kinetic temperature of several opaque cores. In these regards, as well as in their kinematic and spatial deployment on the sky, the CHVC objects are evidently a dynamically cold ensemble of dark–matter–dominated H ɪ clouds accreting onto the Local Group in a continuing process of galactic evolution.

scholarly journals The Fuse Survey of O VI in and near the Milky Way

2004 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 147-153
Author(s):  
B. D. Savage ◽  
B. P. Wakker ◽  
K. R. Sembach ◽  
P. Richter ◽  
M. Meade
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Polar Region ◽  
Milky Way ◽  
Thick Disk ◽  
Hot Gas ◽  
Tidal Interactions ◽  
Halo Stars ◽  
Absorbing Layer ◽  
Far Ultraviolet ◽  
Gas Interactions

We summarize the results of the Far-Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) program to study O VI in the Milky Way halo. Spectra of 100 extragalactic objects and two distant halo stars are analyzed to obtain measures of O VI absorption along paths through the Milky Way thick disk/halo and beyond. Strong O VI absorption over the velocity range from −100 to 100 km s−1 reveals a widespread but highly irregular distribution of O VI, implying the existence of substantial amounts of hot gas with T~3×105 K in the Milky Way thick disk/halo. The overall distribution of O VI can be described by a plane-parallel patchy absorbing layer with an average O VI mid-plane density of no(O VI) = 1.7×10−8 cm−3, an exponential scale height of ~2.3 kpc, and a ~0.25 dex excess of O VI in the northern Galactic polar region. Approximately 60 percent of the sky is covered by high velocity O VI with |vLSR|>100 km s−1. This high velocity O VI traces a variety of phenomena in and near the Milky Way including outflowing material from the Milky Way, tidal interactions with the Magellanic Clouds, accretion of gas onto the Milky Way, and warm/hot gas interactions in a highly extended (>70 kpc) Galactic corona or with hot intergalactic gas in the Local Group.

scholarly journals High Velocity Gas in the Halos of Spiral Galaxies

2004 ◽  
Vol 217 ◽  
pp. 136-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Filippo Fraternali ◽  
Tom Oosterloo ◽  
Rense Boomsma ◽  
Rob Swaters ◽  
Renzo Sancisi
Keyword(s):  
High Velocity ◽  
Spiral Galaxies ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Neutral Gas ◽  
Ngc 6946 ◽  
Inclination Angles ◽  
High Velocity Clouds ◽  
Halo Gas ◽  
Very High ◽  
Thick Layers

Recent, high sensitivity, HI observations of nearby spiral galaxies show that their thin ‘cold’ disks are surrounded by thick layers (halos) of neutral gas with anomalous kinematics. We present results for three galaxies viewed at different inclination angles: NGC 891 (edge-on), NGC 2403 (i=60°), and NGC 6946 (almost face-on). These studies show the presence of halo gas up to distances of 10-15 kpc from the plane. Such gas has a mean rotation 25-50 km s−1 lower than that of the gas in the plane, and some complexes are detected at very high velocities, up to 200-300 km s−1. The nature and origin of this halo gas are poorly understood. It can either be the result of a galactic fountain or of accretion from the intergalactic medium. It is probably analogous to some of the High Velocity Clouds (HVCs) of the Milky Way.

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