Issue |
A&A
Volume 596, December 2016
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Article Number | A94 | |
Number of page(s) | 19 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629141 | |
Published online | 09 December 2016 |
All-sky census of Galactic high-latitude molecular intermediate-velocity clouds
1 Argelander-Institut für Astronomie
(AIfA), Universität Bonn, Auf dem
Hügel 71, 53121 Bonn, Germany
e-mail: troehser@astro.uni-bonn.de
2 Max-Planck-Institut für
Radioastronomie (MPIfR), Auf dem
Hügel 69, 53121
Bonn,
Germany
Received:
17
June
2016
Accepted:
20
September
2016
Context. The H i halo clouds of the Milky Way, and in particular the intermediate-velocity clouds (IVCs), are thought to be connected to Galactic fountain processes. Observations of fountain clouds are important for understanding the role of matter recycling and accretion onto the Galactic disk and subsequent star formation.
Aims. Here, we quantify the amount of molecular gas in the Galactic halo. We focus on the rare class of molecular IVCs (MIVCs) and search for new objects.
Methods. The H i-FIR correlation was studied across the entire northern and southern Galactic hemispheres at Galactic latitudes | b | > 20° to determine the amount and distribution of molecular gas in IVCs. We used the most recent large-scale H i and FIR data, the Effelsberg Bonn-H i Survey, the Parkes Galactic All-Sky Survey, and the Planck FIR surveys.
Results. We present a catalogue of 239 MIVC candidates on the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres. Among these candidates, all previously known MIVCs are recovered except for one single source. The frequency of candidates differs significantly between the northern and southern Galactic hemispheres and between negative and positive LSR velocities as well.
Conclusions. In our approach we analyse the local Galactic environment. Extrapolating our results to the entire Galaxy, the global inflow of atomic and molecular IVC gas onto the Milky Way may account for the major fraction of the gaseous mass that is required to sustain the current Galactic star formation rate.
Key words: Galaxy: halo / ISM: clouds / ISM: molecules / catalogs
© ESO, 2016
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