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May 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aas...200.3304b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 200th AAS Meeting, #33.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 34, p.688
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Recent all-sky surveys of the HI sky have revealed a population of objects which are isolated in position and velocity down to column densities below 1.5*E18cm-2. While not selected on the basis of angular size, these objects turn out to have a median angular size of only 1o. A representative sample has now been studied with high angular resolution (sub-arcmin) on the one hand, and extremely high column density sensitivity (<1017cm-2) on the other. Indirect distance estimates to individual objects range from 150 to 850 kpc. The observable properties of the all-sky sample of such objects have been modeled as the baryonic counterparts of a distribution of dark matter halos (with N(M) ~M-2), with kinematics consistent with evolution in the Local Group potential. Tidal and ram pressure disruption have been considered, as well as realistic accounting for the effects of Galactic foreground obscuration and the finite resolution and sensitivity of the survey data. The best-fitting models have a somewhat flatter HI mass distribution, N(MHI) ~MHI-1.7, which extends from MHI=105.5--107 Msun. The lower mass limit corresponds to the minimum required to survive ionization and disruption; the upper to avoid internal star formation. The spatial distributions are concentrated around M31 and the Galaxy with a Gaussian dispersion of 150--200 kpc. The disrupted objects from the low mass tails of these distributions are predicted to have added a few times 109 Msun of gas to the halos of both M31 and the Galaxy. Sensitive new data have revealed such isolated HI clouds which are apparently undergoing mergers with both M33 and M31.
Braun Robert
Burton William Butler
de Heij Vincent
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