HI Observations of an Ultra-Compact High-Velocity Cloud

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2004-09-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409153v1

Astron.Astrophys.426:L9-L14,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200400068

We present HI observations of the compact high-velocity cloud HVC289+33+251 that was discovered by Putman et al. (2002). Observations with the 100-m Effelsberg telescope demonstrate that this cloud is still unresolved by the 9' beam of the Effelsberg telescope. The cloud shows a small line width of Delta v_FWHM = 4.9 km/s providing an upper limit to the kinetic temperature of the HI gas of T_k < 532 K. The total observed flux indicates an HI mass of M(HI) = 5.66 10^4 M_sun [d/150kpc]^2. Follow-up HI observations using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) resolve HVC289+33+251 into 5 condensations that are embedded in a common HI envelope. The HVC shows a faint tail, indicating an ongoing ram-pressure interaction with an ambient low-density medium. A FWHM diameter of theta = 4.4 arcmin makes this HVC the by far most compact HVC known till now. The observed parameters suggest that pressure stabilization by an ambient medium is rather unlikely. At a distance of 150 kpc, the virial mass is by a factor of 5.6 higher than the observed gas mass -- consistent with HVC289+33+251 being one of the "missing" dark matter mini halos that were predicted by cosmological LCDM simulations (e.g. Klypin et al. 1999; Moore et al. 1999). Comparable clouds in other groups of galaxies or even around the Milky Way are not detectable with the resolution and sensitivity of present surveys.

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