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Jul 2009
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HST Proposal ID #12275. Cycle 18
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Gas flows out of and into the Milky Way are a crucial element in its evolution. Supernovae heat gas in the disk and lift it into the halo. Tidal streams and instabilities in the hot Galactic corona result in an inflow of low-metallicity gas. These flows can be observed in the form of the high-velocity clouds {HVCs}. Their location, brightness, distances, ionization structure and metallicities can be used to determine the conditions in the gaseous disk and halo as well as the rate of mass flow corresponding to the different processes. So far, sufficient information to derive an associated mass flow rate is available for just 5 HVCs. We propose to observe 20 AGNs toward most of the other HVC complexes as well as toward a few small clouds, in order to derive a metallicity for almost every HVC complex, which will complement distance measurements that have been or will be obtained in our ongoing program. Combining all the data, we can derive {a} the rate of the circulation of gas between disk and halo, constraining the Galactic supernova rate and {b} the accretion rate of low-metallicity material that feeds star formation over 10 Gyr, which will constrain both models of galactic chemical evolution and models of the conditions in the hot galactic corona.;
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