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111. Composite CO Survey of the Milky Way
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/VIII/39
Title:
Composite CO Survey of the Milky Way
Short Name:
VIII/39
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This survey consists of CO(J=1-0) (115 GHz) spectra for the entire Galactic plane. The latitude coverage varies with longitude and in some regions extends from -25 degrees to +25 degrees. The observations were made with the Columbia/GISS 1.2m telescope in New York City, and a twin telescope on Cerro Tololo in Chile. The angular resolution of the survey is 30' (square), the velocity resolution is 1.3km/s and the sensitivity ranges from about 0.1K/chan to 0.35K/chan. The survey is presented as 720 latitude-velocity maps in FITS format, one for each 30' of longitude from -180.0 deg to +179.5 deg, and one velocity-integrated map covering the entire plane. The velocity range of each file is -300 km/s to +300 km/s. The survey has been updated to include some additional data, more careful reprojections of the regions that were originally mapped in equatorial coordinates, and improved estimates of the absolute calibration of the CO intensities (Digel and Dame 1995, unpublished).
112. Continuum sources from the THOR survey
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/588/A97
Title:
Continuum sources from the THOR survey
Short Name:
J/A+A/588/A97
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We carried out a large program with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA): "THOR: The HI, OH, Recombination line survey of the Milky Way". We observed a significant portion of the Galactic plane in the first quadrant of the Milky Way in the 21cm HI line, 4 OH transitions, 19 radio recombination lines, and continuum from 1 to 2GHz. In this paper we present a catalog of the continuum sources in the first half of the survey (l=14.0-37.9{deg} and l=47.1-51.2{deg}, |b|<1.1{deg}) at a spatial resolution of 10-25", depending on the frequency and sky position with a spatially varying noise level of ~0.3-1mJy/beam. The catalog contains ~4400 sources. Around 1200 of these are spatially resolved, and ~1000 are possible artifacts, given their low signal-to-noise ratios. Since the spatial distribution of the unresolved objects is evenly distributed and not confined to the Galactic plane, most of them are extragalactic. Thanks to the broad bandwidth of the observations from 1 to 2GHz, we are able to determine a reliable spectral index for ~1800 sources. The spectral index distribution reveals a double-peaked profile with maxima at spectral indices of alpha=-1 and alpha=0, corresponding to steep declining and flat spectra, respectively. This allows us to distinguish between thermal and non-thermal emission, which can be used to determine the nature of each source. We examine the spectral index of ~300 known HII regions, for which we find thermal emission with spectral indices around alpha=0. In contrast, supernova remnants (SNR) show non-thermal emission with alpha=-0.5 and extragalactic objects generally have a steeper spectral index of alpha=-1. Using the spectral index information of the THOR survey, we investigate potential SNR candidates. We classify the radiation of four SNR candidates as non-thermal, and for the first time, we provide strong evidence for the SNR origin of these candidates.
113. CO obs. of MCs in the Extreme Outer Galaxy region
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/230/17
Title:
CO obs. of MCs in the Extreme Outer Galaxy region
Short Name:
J/ApJS/230/17
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present the results of an unbiased CO survey in the Galactic range of 34.75{deg}<=l<=45.25{deg} and -5.25{deg}<=b<=5.25{deg}, and the velocity range beyond the Outer arm. A total of 168 molecular clouds (MCs) are identified within the Extreme Outer Galaxy (EOG) region, and 31 of these MCs are associated with ^13^CO emission. However, none of them show significant C^18^O emission under the current detection limit. The typical size and mass of these MCs are 5pc and 3x10^3^M_{sun}_, implying a lack of large and massive MCs in the EOG region. Similar to MCs in the outer Galaxy, the velocity dispersions of EOG clouds are also correlated with their sizes; however, they are well displaced below the scaling relationship defined by the inner Galaxy MCs. These MCs with a median Galactocentric radius of 12.6kpc show very different distributions from those of the MCs in the Outer arm published in our previous paper, while roughly following the Outer Scutum-Centaurus arm defined by Dame & Thaddeus (2011ApJ...734L..24D). This result may provide robust evidence for the existence of the Outer Scutum-Centaurus arm. The lower limit of the total mass of this segment is about 2.7x10^5^M_{sun}_, which is about one magnitude lower than that of the Outer arm. The mean thickness of the gaseous disk is about 1.45{deg} or 450pc, and the scale height is about 1.27{deg}, or 400pc above the b=0{deg} plane. The warp traced by CO emission is very obvious in the EOG region and its amplitude is consistent with the predictions by other warp models using different tracers, such as dust, HI, and stellar components of our Galaxy.
114. CO obs. of molecular clouds in the MW midplane
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/254/3
Title:
CO obs. of molecular clouds in the MW midplane
Short Name:
J/ApJS/254/3
Date:
17 Jan 2022 11:34:49
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
In this work, we study the properties of molecular clouds in the second quadrant of the Milky Way Midplane, from l=104.75{deg} to l=119.75{deg}, and b=-5.25{deg} to b=5.25{deg}, using the ^12^CO, ^13^CO, and C^18^O J=1-0 emission line data from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project. We identify 857 and 300 clouds in the ^12^CO and ^13^CO spectral cubes, respectively, using the DENDROGRAM + SCIMES algorithms. The distances of the molecular clouds are estimated, and physical properties such as the mass, size, and surface densities of the clouds are tabulated. The molecular clouds in the Perseus Arm are about 30-50 times more massive, and 4-6 times larger than the clouds in the Local Arm. This result, however, is likely to be biased by distance selection effects. The surface densities of the clouds are enhanced in the Perseus Arm, with an average value of ~100M_{sun}_/pc^2^. Here. we select the 40 most extended (>0.35arcdeg^2^) molecular clouds from the ^12^CO catalog to build the H_2_ column density probability distribution function (N-PDF). Some 78% of the N-PDFs of the selected molecular clouds are well fitted with log-normal functions with only small deviations at high densities, corresponding to star-forming regions with scales of ~1-5pc in the Local Arm, and ~5-10pc in the Perseus Arm. About 18% of the selected molecular clouds have power-law N-PDFs at high densities. In these molecular clouds, the majority of the regions fitted with the power law correspond to molecular clumps at sizes of ~1pc, or filaments at widths of ~1pc.
115. CO obs. of molecular clouds in the 2nd quadrant
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/798/L27
Title:
CO obs. of molecular clouds in the 2nd quadrant
Short Name:
J/ApJ/798/L27
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Combining H I data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey and CO data from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project (MWISP), we have identified a new segment of a spiral arm between Galactocentric radii of 15 and 19kpc that apparently lies beyond the Outer Arm in the second Galactic quadrant. Over most of its length, the arm is 400-600pc thick in z. The new arm appears to be the extension of the distant arm recently discovered by Dame & Thaddeus (2011ApJ...734L..24D) as well as the Scutum-Centaurus Arm into the outer second quadrant. Our current survey identified a total of 72 molecular clouds with masses on the order of 10^2^-10^4^M_{sun}_ that probably lie in the new arm. When all of the available data from the CO molecular clouds are fit, the best-fitting spiral model gives a pitch angle of 9.3{deg}+/-0.7{deg}.
116. CO obs. of the outer arm in the 2nd quadrant
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/224/7
Title:
CO obs. of the outer arm in the 2nd quadrant
Short Name:
J/ApJS/224/7
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The lack of arm tracers, especially remote tracers, is one of the most difficult problems preventing us from studying the structure of the Milky Way. Fortunately, with its high-sensitivity CO survey, the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) project offers such an opportunity. Since completing about one-third of its mission, an area of l=[100,150]{deg}, b=[-3,5]{deg} has nearly been covered. The Outer arm of the Milky Way first clearly revealed its shape in the second galactic quadrant in the form of molecular gas --this is the first time that the Outer arm has been reported in such a large-scale mapping of molecular gas. Using the 115GHz ^12^CO(1-0) data of MWISP at the LSR velocity ~[-100,-60]km/s and in the area mentioned above, we have detected 481 molecular clouds in total, and among them 332 (about 69%) are newly detected and 457 probably belong to the Outer arm. The total mass of the detected Outer arm clouds is ~3.1x10^6^M_{sun}__. Assuming that the spiral arm is a logarithmic spiral, the pitch angle is fitted as ~13.1{deg}. Besides combining both the CO data from MWISP and the 21cm HI data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS), the gas distribution, warp, and thickness of the Outer arm are also studied.
117. Cool carbon stars in the halo and Fornax dSph
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/562/A24
Title:
Cool carbon stars in the halo and Fornax dSph
Short Name:
J/A+A/562/A24
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
The population of cool carbon (C) stars located far from the galactic plane is probably made of debris of small galaxies such as the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Sgr), which are disrupted by the gravitational field of the Galaxy. We aim to know this population better through spectroscopy, 2MASS photometric colours, and variability data. When possible, we compared the halo results to C star populations in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, Sgr, and the solar neighbourhood. We first present a few new discoveries of C stars in the halo and in Fornax. The number of spectra of halo C stars is now 125. Forty percent show H{alpha} in emission. The narrow location in the JHK diagram of the halo C stars is found to differ from that of similar C stars in the above galaxies. The light curves of the Catalina and LINEAR variability databases were exploited to derive the pulsation periods of 66 halo C stars. A few supplementary periods were obtained with the TAROT telescopes. We confirm that the period distribution of the halo strongly resembles that of Fornax, and we found that it is very different from the C stars in the solar neighbourhood. There is a larger proportion of short-period Mira/SRa variables in the halo than in Sgr, but the survey for C stars in this dwarf galaxy is not complete, and the study of their variability needs to be continued to investigate the link between Sgr and the cool halo C stars.
118. CORNISH project IV. Radio-selected galactic PN
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/480/2423
Title:
CORNISH project IV. Radio-selected galactic PN
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/480/2423
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a new radio-selected sample of PNe from the CORNISH survey. We find 90 new PNe, of which 12 are newly discovered and 78 are newly classified as PN. A further 47 previously suspected PNe are confirmed as such from the analysis presented here and 24 known PNe are detected. Eight sources are classified as possible PNe or other source types.
119. Coronae of nearby star clusters
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/645/A84
Title:
Coronae of nearby star clusters
Short Name:
J/A+A/645/A84
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
We present a novel view on the morphology and dynamical state of ten prominent, nearby (<=500pc), and young (~30-300Myr) open star clusters with Gaia DR2: Per, Blanco 1, IC 2602, IC 2391, Messier 39, NGC 2451A, NGC 2516, NGC 2547, Platais 9, and the Pleiades. We introduce a pioneering member-identification method that is informed by cluster bulk velocities and deconvolves the spatial distribution with a mixture of Gaussians. Our approach enables inferring the true spatial distribution of the clusters by effectively filtering field star contaminants while at the same time mitigating the effect of positional errors along the line of sight. This first application of the method reveals vast stellar coronae that extend for >~100pc and surround the cluster cores, which are comparatively tiny and compact. The coronae and cores form intertwined, coeval, and comoving extended cluster populations, each encompassing tens of thousands of cubic parsec and stretching across tens of degrees on the sky. Our analysis shows that the coronae are gravitationally unbound but largely comprise the bulk of the stellar mass of the populations. Most systems are in a highly dynamic state, showing evidence of expansion and sometimes simultaneous contraction along different spatial axes. The velocity field of the extended populations for the cluster cores appears asymmetric but is aligned along a spatial axis unique to each cluster. The overall spatial distribution and the kinematic signature of the populations are largely consistent with the differential rotation pattern of the Milky Way. This finding underlines the important role of global Galactic dynamics in the fate of stellar systems. Our results highlight the complexity of the Milky Way's open cluster population and call for a new perspective on the characterization and dynamical state of open clusters.
120. CSS Periodic Variable Star Catalogue
ID:
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/469/3688
Title:
CSS Periodic Variable Star Catalogue
Short Name:
J/MNRAS/469/3688
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
Here we present the results from our analysis of six years of optical photometry taken by the Siding Spring Survey (SSS). This completes a search for periodic variable stars within the 30,000 square degrees of the sky covered by the Catalina Surveys. The current analysis covers 81 million sources with declinations between -20 and -75 degrees with median magnitudes in the range 11<V<19.5. We find approximately 34,000 new periodic variable stars in addition to the ~9,000 RR Lyrae that we previously discovered in SSS data. This brings the total number of periodic variables identified in Catalina data to ~110,000. The new SSS periodic variable stars mainly consist of eclipsing binaries, RR Lyrae, LPVs, RS CVn stars, {delta} Scutis and Anomalous Cepheids. By cross-matching these variable stars with those from prior surveys, we find that ~90% of the sources are new discoveries and recover ~95% of the known periodic variables in the survey region. For the known sources, we find excellent agreement between our catalogue and prior values of luminosity, period and amplitude. However, we find many variable stars that had previously been misclassified. Examining the distribution of RR Lyrae, we find a population associated with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that extends more than 20 degrees from its center confirming recent evidence for the existence of a very extended stellar halo in the LMC. By combining SSS photometry with Dark Energy Survey data, we identify additional LMC halo RR Lyrae, thus confirming the significance of the population.