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The Draco Nebula, a Molecular Cloud Associated with a High Velocity Cloud?Extended and very faint bright nebulae are found in high galactic latitudes at the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey. Such a nebula, located in the constellation Draco and called Draco Nebula or Dracula, was found to be in detailed positional coincidence with a 21 cm emission line feature. Estimates of the minimum visual extinction from star counts ON and OFF Dracula and an estimated visual surface brightness indicate that Dracula fits the relation SBV = 24.2 - 2.5 log AV for dust clouds located above the galactic plane and reflecting the integrated starlight of the galactic disk. Hence Dracula is probably a reflection nebula. Indicators of molecular hydrogen in Dracula, molecules such as CO, were searched for by using a 2.5-m mm-telescope. Molecular hydrogen column densities were estimated. The dynamics of CO clumps was studied. Dracula has a close positional and possibly even astrophysical relationship to the high velocity cloud phenomenon.
Document ID
19850007268
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Mebold, U.
(Bonn Univ.)
Kalberla, P. W. M.
(Bonn Univ.)
Date Acquired
August 12, 2013
Publication Date
November 1, 1984
Publication Information
Publication: NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Local Interstellar Medium, No. 81
Subject Category
Astrophysics
Accession Number
85N15577
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.
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