Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 6 figures, uses basi.cls, to be published in Bull. Astr. Soc. India
Scientific paper
A high latitude HI 21 cm-line absorption survey toward extragalactic sources was recently completed using the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT). A total of 104 sources with mod(b) > 15 deg. and with a 21 cm flux density greater than 1 Jy were observed for about 120 hours. With an optical depth detection limit of about 0.01 this is the most sensitive high-latitude survey as yet. Most of the detected HI 21 cm-line absorption features belong to a population with a velocity dispersion of about 7.6 km/s. These are the 'standard' HI clouds and have been well-studied for decades. However, we also detect a second population of absorbing clouds with a velocity dispersion of about 21 km/s. About 20 percent of the total number of absorbing clouds belong to this population. This new population of 'fast' clouds can be identified with a similar velocity dispersion Ca II absorbing clouds and with the Halo clouds recently detected in HI emission from Green Bank.
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