2 papers
astro-ph1999
Summary of Recent Progress in Understanding HVCs
Bart P. Wakker, Hugo van Woerden, Brad K. Gibson
The study of high-velocity clouds has progressed much since the appearance of the review article by Wakker & van Woerden (1997), less than two years ago. Much of this progress is d…
astro-ph1998
Observational evidence for the accretion of low-metallicity gas onto the Milky Way; metallicity, physical conditions and distance limit for HVC complex C
B. P. Wakker, J. C. Howk, B. D. Savage +5
We present observations of the (field of the) Seyfert galaxy Mark290, which probes the high-velocity cloud (HVC) complex C, one of the largest HVCs. We find that this object has a…