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Neutral Gas Outside the Disks of Local Group Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2017

Felix J. Lockman
Felix J. Lockman*
Affiliation:
National Radio Astronomy Observatory †, Green Bank National Observatory, P.O. Box 2, Green Bank, WV 24944USA email: jlockman@nrao.edu
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Abstract

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Of the three kinds of neutral gas found outside the stellar disks of Local Group galaxies, only the products of interaction, like the Magellanic Stream, have a clearly understandable origin. Both the high-velocity clouds and the faint H I between M31 and M33 remain a mystery. New observations of the region between M31 and M33 with the Green Bank Telescope show that the H I there resides in clouds with a size and mass similar to that of dwarf galaxies, but without stars. These clouds might be products of an interaction, or condensations in the hot circumgalactic medium of M31, but both these models have difficulties. The prevalence of clouds like this in the Local Group remains to be determined.

Keywords

Galaxy: evolutionGalaxy: formationGalaxy: halogalaxies: Local Group
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S321: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Outskirts , March 2016 , pp. 223 - 225
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2017 

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