期刊
ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 692, 期 1, 页码 827-838出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/692/1/827
关键词
galaxies: formation; Galaxy: halo; ISM: clouds; ISM: kinematics and dynamics
资金
- National Science Foundation [AST-0709347, AST-0406987]
- NSF [AST-0707597]
- Division Of Astronomical Sciences
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0917810] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Models that reproduce the observed high-velocity clouds (HVCs) also predict clouds at lower radial velocities that may easily be confused with Galactic disk (vertical bar z vertical bar < 1 kpc) gas. We describe the first search for these low-velocity halo clouds (LVHCs) using Infrared Astronomical Satellite ( IRAS) data and the initial data from the Galactic Arecibo L-band Feed Array survey in Hi. The technique is based upon the expectation that such clouds should, like HVCs, have very limited infrared (IR) thermal dust emission as compared to their Hi column density. We describe our displacement-map technique for robustly determining the dust-to-gas ratio (DGR) of clouds and the associated errors that take into account the significant scatter in the IR flux from the Galactic disk gas. We find that there exist lower-velocity clouds that have extremely low DGRs, consistent with being in the Galactic halo-candidate LVHCs. We also confirm the lack of dust in many HVCs with the notable exception of complex M, which we consider to be the first detection of dust in HVCs. We do not confirm the previously reported detection of dust in complex C. In addition, we find that most intermediate-and low-velocity clouds that are part of the Galactic disk have a higher 60 mu m/100 mu m flux ratio than is typically seen in Galactic Hi, which is consistent with a previously proposed picture in which fast-moving Galactic clouds have smaller, hotter dust grains.
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