Speaker
Dr
Noraiz Tahir
(Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), H12, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Description
The halo of our Galaxy is populated with a significant number of high-velocity clouds (HVCs) moving with a speed up to $500$ km/s. It is suggested that these HVCs might contain a non-negligible fraction of the missing baryons. We aim to estimate the baryonic mass of the Milky Way halo in the form of HVCs to constrain a fraction of missing baryons in the form of these clouds. Such findings would substantially help in studying our Galaxy's halo dynamics. Here we summarise our estimates on the baryonic mass of the Milky Way halo in HVCs. We estimate that the total mass of the Milky Way halo resulted to be $\sim (7 \pm 2) \times 10^{9} M_{\odot}$ in the form of HVCs and compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs).
Primary author
Dr
Noraiz Tahir
(Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences (SNS), National University of Science and Technology (NUST), H12, Islamabad, Pakistan)
Co-authors
Prof.
Francesco De Paolis
(Department of Mathematics and Physics ``Ennio De Giorgi'', University of Salento, Via per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy; INFN, Sezione di Lecce, Via per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy; INAF, Sezione di Lecce, Via per Arnesano, 73100, Lecce, Italy)
Martín López-Corredoira
(Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna, E-38205, Tenerife, Spain and Instituto de Astrofisica, de Canarias, La Laguna, E-38205, Tenerife, Spain)
