Discovery of molecular hydrogen in a high-velocity cloud of the Galactic halo

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24 November 1999

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9911455

Abstract

We report the discovery of molecular hydrogen absorption in a Galactic high-velocity cloud (HVC) in the direction of the Large Magellanic Cloud. For the same HVC we derive an iron abundance which is half of the solar value. Thus, all evidence points to a Galactic origin for high-velocity cloud complex in front of the LMC.

Keywords

DISCOVERY OF MOLECULAR
HYDROGEN ABSORPTION
HIGH VELOCITY CLOUD
MOLECULAR HYDROGEN
VELOCITY CLOUD
IRON

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Version 1, 1999-11-24, ArXiv
Published version: Nature, 402 (6760), 386.

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