HIPASS High-Velocity Clouds: Properties of the Compact and Extended Populations

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2001-10-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0110416v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

32 pages, 26 figures in gif format, 2 ascii tables, to appear in the Jan 2002 issue of The Astronomical Journal, high resoluti

Scientific paper

10.1086/338088

A catalog of Southern anomalous-velocity HI clouds at Decl. < +2 deg is presented, based on data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). The improved sensitivity (5sigma: T_B = 0.04 K) and resolution (15.5') of the HIPASS data results in a substantial increase in the number of individual clouds (1956, as well as 41 galaxies) compared to previous surveys. Most high-velocity emission features, HVCs, have a filamentary morphology and are loosely organized into large complexes extending over tens of degrees. In addition, 179 compact and isolated anomalous-velocity objects, CHVCs, are identified based on their size and degree of isolation. 25% of the CHVCs originally classified by Braun & Burton (1999) are reclassified. Both the entire population of high-velocity emission features and the CHVCs alone have typical HI masses of ~ 4.5 D(kpc)^2 solar masses and have similar slopes for their column density and flux distributions. On the other hand, the CHVCs appear to be clustered and the population can be broken up into three spatially distinct groups, while the entire population of clouds is more uniformly distributed with a significant percentage aligned with the Magellanic Stream. The median velocities are V_GSR = -38 km/s for the CHVCs and -30 km/s for all of the anomalous-velocity clouds. Based on the catalog sizes, high-velocity features cover 19% of the southern sky and CHVCs cover 1%. (abridged)

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