A Catalog of Compact High-Velocity Clouds from the FAST All-Sky HI Survey (FASHI) DR2
Jin-Long Xu, Chuan-Peng Zhang, Xiao-Lan Liu, Nai-Ping Yu, Mei Ai, Ming Zhu
astro-ph.GA
Submitted: 2026-07-16
Comments: 17 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
The gist: High-velocity clouds (HVCs) -- especially compact HVCs (CHVCs) -- are thought to serve as gaseous tracers of dark-matter-dominated subhalos, providing a crucial empirical link between the predicted
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Abstract
High-velocity clouds (HVCs) -- especially compact HVCs (CHVCs) -- are thought to serve as gaseous tracers of dark-matter-dominated subhalos, providing a crucial empirical link between the predicted dark matter substructure and observed satellite galaxies. In this paper, we present a new catalog of 192 CHVCs identified from the FAST All-Sky HI Survey (FASHI) Data Release 2 (DR2). Among these, 108 are ultra-compact HVCs (UCHVCs), the majority of which are new discoveries. We find that 185 of the 192 CHVCs are spatially and kinematically concentrated around the Andromeda galaxy (M31), with a median LSR velocity of-296.1 km/s, suggesting physical association with M31. Adopting an M31 distance of 0.8 Mpc, we derive HI masses in the range 1.9*10 5 to 4.0*10 6 Msun and dynamical masses from 1.0*10 7 to 6.3*10 8 Msun. Approximately half of the CHVCs follow the baryonic Tully--Fisher relation. No optical counterparts are detected in Pan-STARRS1 imaging down to a limiting magnitude of m g = 22.8. We conclude that these CHVCs likely represent a population of gas-rich, starless minihalos and provide an excellent sample for the search for dark galaxies.
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