Princeton University Star Formation/ISM Rendezvous (SFIR)

Cold galactic outflows in the Milky Way-Magellanic system

Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, and its satellites, the Magellanic Clouds, are unique laboratories to study galactic winds in action. In this talk, I will review the results of our recent HI and CO surveys of the Galactic Centre and of the Small Magellanic Cloud aimed to find traces of the cold gas component in local outflows. Our surveys revealed the existence of conspicuous populations of anomalous high-velocity clouds extending up to distances of about 2 kpc from the Galactic Plane and from the Small Magellanic Cloud. I will describe the morphological and kinematical properties of neutral and molecular gas in these winds, resolved on a ~1 pc scale, and discuss their possible origin.

Date & Time

April 21, 2021 | 11:00am – 12:00pm

Location

Virtual Meeting

Speakers

Enrico Di Teodoro

Affiliation

Johns Hopkins University