Where Are the High Velocity Clouds?
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Recent observations of high velocity clouds (HVCs) have revealed compression fronts and tail shaped features of HI suggesting that they are interacting with an external medium. We perform 3-D hydrodynamical simulations of HVCs moving through a diffuse hot gaseous component, investigating the behaviour of both extra-galactic dark matter dominated HVCs and nearby pure gas clouds that may be accreting onto the Galactic disk via a Galactic fountain. Both scenarios can give rise to similar features as observed if the external medium has a density > 10 cm. Observations suggest that this may be too high for a hot ionised halo or intergalactic gas and supports the Galactic fountain origin, a model that can also account for the high fraction of HVCs with tails and asymmetrical morphologies. Subject headings: dark matter — galaxies: halos — galaxies: formation — galaxies: evolution
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