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Motivated by the apparent order-of-magnitude discrepancy between the observed number of Local Group satellite galaxies, and that predicted by Lambda-CDM hierarchical clustering cosmologies, we explore an alternate suggestion - perhaps the missing satellites are not actually ``missing, but are instead ``in disguise. The disguise we consider here is that of the classical HI High-Velocity Clouds. Is it possible that what have been thought of traditionally as a ``Galactic phenomenon, are actually the building blocks of the Local Group? We discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this hypothesis, and highlight avenues of future research which may provide an unequivocal resolution to this contentious issue.
High-velocity clouds (HVCs) are clouds of HI seen around the Milky Way with velocities inconsistent with Galactic rotation, have unknown distances and masses and controversial origins. One possibility is that HVCs are associated with the small dark m
A set of HI sources extracted from the north Galactic polar region by the ongoing ALFALFA survey has properties that are consistent with the interpretation that they are associated with isolated minihalos in the outskirts of the Local Group (LG). Unl
Network motifs are small building blocks of complex networks. Statistically significant motifs often perform network-specific functions. However, the precise nature of the connection between motifs and the global structure and function of networks re
Compact high-velocity clouds (CHVCs) are the most distant of the HVCs in the Local Group model and would have HI volume densities of order 0.0003/cm^3. Clouds with these volume densities and the observed neutral hydrogen column densities will be larg
Measurement scenarios containing events with relations of exclusivity represented by pentagons, heptagons, nonagons, etc., or their complements are the only ones in which quantum probabilities cannot be described classically. Interestingly, quantum t