High-Velocity Clouds

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Woerden, Hugo van (Editor), Wakker, Bart P. (Editor), Schwarz, Ulrich J. (Editor), Boer, Klaas S. de (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ; 312
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; Space sciences.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences.

On the occasion of the retirement of Ulrich Schwarz, a symposium was held in Groningen in May of 1996, celebrating his contributions to the study of the int- stellar medium, including his work on the high-velocity clouds. The coming together of many specialists in the latter ?eld prompted the idea o...

Table of Contents:

• History of HVC research — an Overview
• HVC/IVC Maps and HVC Distribution Functions
• Kinematics of HV and IV Gas
• Interemdiate-velocity Clouds
• HVCS Related to the Magellanic System
• High-velocity Hi Gas in External Galaxies
• The Large- and Small-scale Structure of HVCs
• Ionized Gas Associated with HVCs
• The Coldest Phase in Halo High-velocity Gas: Dust and Molecules
• Distances and Metallicities of HVCS
• The Hot Halo
• HVCS Interacting With Their Environment
• Warps, Polar Rings and High-velocity Clouds
• High-Velocity Clouds: The Missing Link?
• Compact, Isolated High-velocity Clouds
• The Origin of the High-velocity Clouds
• Unsolved Mysteries of High-velocity Clouds.