- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/741/110
- Title:
- The BGPS. VII. Massive star-forming regions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/741/110
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the results of a Green Bank Telescope survey of NH_3_(1,1), (2,2), (3,3) lines toward 631 Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) sources at a range of Galactic longitudes in the inner Galaxy. We have detected the NH_3_(1,1) line toward 72% of our targets (456), demonstrating that the high column density features identified in the BGPS and other continuum surveys accurately predict the presence of dense gas. We have determined kinematic distances and resolved the distance ambiguity for all BGPS sources detected in NH_3_. The BGPS sources trace the locations of the Scutum and Sagittarius spiral arms, with the number of sources peaking between R_Gal_~4 and 5kpc. We measure the physical properties of each source and find that depending on the distance, BGPS sources are primarily clumps, with some cores and clouds. Forty-eight percent of our sample should be forming stars (including massive stars) with high efficiency, and 87% contain subregions that should be efficiently forming stars. Indeed, we find that 67% of the sample exhibit signs of star formation activity based on an association with a mid-infrared source.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/721/137
- Title:
- The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS)
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/721/137
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) data for a 6deg^2^ region of the Galactic plane containing the Galactic center are analyzed and compared to infrared and radio continuum data. The BGPS 1.1mm emission consists of clumps interconnected by a network of fainter filaments surrounding cavities, a few of which are filled with diffuse near-IR emission indicating the presence of warm dust or with radio continuum characteristic of HII regions or supernova remnants. New 350um images of the environments of the two brightest regions, Sgr A and B, are presented. Sgr B2 is the brightest millimeter-emitting clump in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) and may be forming the closest analog to a super star cluster in the Galaxy. The CMZ contains the highest concentration of millimeter- and submillimeter-emitting dense clumps in the Galaxy. Most 1.1mm features at positive longitudes are seen in silhouette against the 3.6-24um background observed by the Spitzer Space Telescope. However, only a few clumps at negative longitudes are seen in absorption, confirming the hypothesis that positive longitude clumps in the CMZ tend to be on the near side of the Galactic center, consistent with the suspected orientation of the central bar in our Galaxy. The Bolocat catalog of 1.1mm clumps contains 1428 entries in the Galactic center between l=358.5{deg} and l=4.5{deg} of which about 80% are likely to be within about 500pc of the center.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/188/123
- Title:
- The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/188/123
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of 8358 sources extracted from images produced by the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS). The BGPS is a survey of the millimeter dust continuum emission from the northern Galactic plane. The catalog sources are extracted using a custom algorithm, Bolocat, which was designed specifically to identify and characterize objects in the large-area maps generated from the Bolocam instrument. The catalog products are designed to facilitate follow-up observations of these relatively unstudied objects. The catalog is 98% complete from 0.4Jy to 60Jy over all object sizes for which the survey is sensitive (<3.5'). We find that the sources extracted can best be described as molecular clumps-large dense regions in molecular clouds linked to cluster formation. We find that the flux density distribution of sources follows a power law with dN/dS{prop.to}S^-2.4+/-0.1^ and that the mean Galactic latitude for sources is significantly below the midplane: <b>=(-0.095+/-0.001{deg}).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/243
- Title:
- The ISOGAL Point Source Catalogue - IGPSC
- Short Name:
- II/243
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ISOGAL survey is one of the largest imaging programme performed by the ISO satellite. About 16deg^2^ mainly distributed in the inner Galactic disk were mapped at 7 and/or 15 micron ({mu}m). Because of highly structured background and high source density, a special point source extraction algorithm was used and resulted in a 100000 point source catalogue. The mid-infrared data have been associated with near-infrared DENIS sources, providing an up to five wavelength photometric catalogue with a typical astrometric accuracy better than 1 arcsecond. The point source catalogue contains the positional and photometric parameters of all ISOGAL sources, together with various quality flags aimed at giving an estimate of the reliability of the detections and of the associations between the different bands (see the paper for a complete description).
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/195/8
- Title:
- The QUaD Galactic Plane Survey. II.
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/195/8
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalog of compact sources derived from the QUaD Galactic Plane Survey. The survey covers ~800deg^2^ of the inner galaxy (|b|<4{deg}) in Stokes I, Q, and U parameters at 100 and 150GHz, with angular resolutions of 5 and 3.5 arcmin, respectively. Five hundred and twenty-six unique sources are identified in I, of which 239 are spatially matched between frequency bands, with 53 (234) detected at 100 (150)GHz alone; 170 sources are identified as ultracompact HII regions. Four sources are detected in polarized intensity P, of which three have matching counterparts in I. Three of the polarized sources lie close to the Galactic center, Sagittarius A*, Sagittarius B2, and the Galactic Radio Arc, while the fourth is RCW 49, a bright HII region. An extended polarized source, undetected by the source extraction algorithm on account of its ~0.5{deg} size, is identified visually, and is an isolated example of large-scale polarized emission oriented distinctly from the bulk Galactic dust polarization.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A124
- Title:
- THOR survey in northern Galactic plane
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/619/A124
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Radio continuum surveys of the Galactic plane can find and characterize HII regions, supernova remnants (SNRs), planetary nebulae (PNe), and extragalactic sources. A number of surveys at high angular resolution (<~25") at different wavelengths exist to study the interstellar medium (ISM), but no comparable high-resolution and high-sensitivity survey exists at long radio wavelengths around 21cm. Our goal is to investigate the 21cm radio continuum emission in the northern Galactic plane at <25" resolution. We observed a large fraction of the Galactic plane in the first quadrant of the Milky Way (l=14.0{deg}-67.4{deg} and |b|<=1.25{deg}) with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in the C-configuration covering six continuum spectral windows. These data provide a detailed view on the compact as well as extended radio emission of our Galaxy and thousands of extragalactic background sources. We used the BLOBCAT software and extracted 10916 sources. After removing spurious source detections caused by the sidelobes of the synthesised beam, we classified 10387 sources as reliable detections.We smoothed the images to a common resolution of 25" and extracted the peak flux density of each source in each spectral window (SPW) to determine the spectral indices {alpha} (assuming I(nu){prop.to}nu^alpha^). By cross-matching with catalogs of HII regions, SNRs, PNe, and pulsars, we found radio counterparts for 840 HII regions, 52 SNRs, 164 PNe, and 38 pulsars. We found 79 continuum sources that are associated with X-ray sources. We identified 699 ultrasteep spectral sources (alpha<-1.3) that could be high-redshift galaxies. Around 9000 of the sources we extracted are not classified specifically, but based on their spatial and spectral distribution, a large fraction of them is likely to be extragalactic background sources. More than 7750 sources do not have counterparts in the SIMBAD database, and more than 3760 sources do not have counterparts in the NED database. Studying the long wavelengths cm continuum emission and the associated spectral indices allows us to characterize a large fraction of Galactic and extragalactic radio sources in the area of the northern inner Milky Way. This database will be extremely useful for future studies of a diverse set of astrophysical objects.
137. TMGS star positions
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/491/L31
- Title:
- TMGS star positions
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/491/L31
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present an analysis of the optical spectroscopy of 58 stars in the Galactic plane at l=27deg, where a prominent excess in the flux distribution and star counts have been observed in several spectral regions, in particular in the Two-Micron Galactic Survey (TMGS) catalog. The sources were selected from the TMGS to have a K magnitude brighter than +5mag and to be within 2deg of the Galactic plane. More than 60% of the spectra correspond to stars of luminosity class I, and a significant proportion of the remainder are very late and fast-evolving giants. This very high concentration of young sources points to the existence of a major star formation region in the Galactic plane, located just inside the assumed origin of the Scutum spiral arm. Such regions can form because of the concentrations of shocked gas where a galactic bar meets a spiral arm, as is observed at the ends of the bars of face-on external galaxies. Thus, the presence of a massive star formation region is very strong supporting evidence for the presence of a bar in our Galaxy.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/398/221
- Title:
- UBVIJHK photometry towards (l=305{deg},b=0{deg})
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/398/221
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical (UBVIc) observations of a rich and complex field in the Galactic plane towards l~305{deg} and b~0{deg}.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/93/553
- Title:
- UBV photometry of stars near galactic plane
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/93/553
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- (no description available)
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/316
- Title:
- UKIDSS-DR6 Galactic Plane Survey
- Short Name:
- II/316
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is one of the five near infrared Public Legacy Surveys that are being undertaken by the UKIDSS consortium, using the Wide Field Camera on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope. It is surveying 1868 deg^2^ of the northern and equatorial Galactic plane at Galactic latitudes -5{deg}<b<5{deg} in the J, H and K filters and a ~300 deg^2^ area of the Taurus-Auriga-Perseus molecular cloud complex in these three filters and the 2.12{mu}m (1-0)S(1)H_2_ filter. It will provide data on ~ 3x10^9^ sources. The survey use the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM, see Casali et al. 2007A&A...467..777C) on the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT). The typical 90% completeness limits in uncrowded fields are K=18.0, H=18.75, J=19.5, with uncertainties of about 0.2mag.
