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astro-ph1998
Highly Ionized High Velocity Clouds
Kenneth R. Sembach, Blair D. Savage, Limin Lu +1
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 CI…
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…
astro-ph1998
The HI fine structure of HVC187 near NGC3783, gas in the leading bridge of the Magellanic System
B. P. Wakker, B. D. Savage, T. A. Oosterloo +1
We present an analysis of high-resolution HI data of one of the cores of HVC187 Wakker & van Woerden 1991), HVC287+22+240. Structure is present down to the lowest-measurable scale…