- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/657/A1
- Title:
- Maggie filament datacubes
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/657/A1
- Date:
- 21 Mar 2022 09:19:29
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The atomic phase of the interstellar medium plays a key role in the formation process of molecular clouds. Due to the line-of-sight confusion in the Galactic plane that is associated with its ubiquity, atomic hydrogen emission has been challenging to study. We investigate the physical properties of the "Maggie" filament, a large-scale filament identified in HI emission at line-of-sight velocities, v_LSR_~-54km/s. Employing the high-angular resolution data from The HI/OH Recombination line survey of the inner Milky Way (THOR), we have been able to study HI emission features at negative v_LSR_ velocities without any line-of-sight confusion due to the kinematic distance ambiguity in the first Galactic quadrant. In order to investigate the kinematic structure, we decomposed the emission spectra using the automated Gaussian fitting algorithm GaussPy+. We identify one of the largest, coherent, mostly atomic HI filaments in the Milky Way. The giant atomic filament Maggie, with a total length of 1.2+/-0.1kpc, is not detected in most other tracers, and it does not show signs of active star formation. At a kinematic distance of 17kpc, Maggie is situated below (by ~500pc), but parallel to, the Galactic HI disk and is trailing the predicted location of the Outer Arm by 5-10km/s in longitude-velocity space. The centroid velocity exhibits a smooth gradient of less than 3(km/s)/(10pc) and a coherent structure to within +/-6km/s. The line widths of ~10km/s along the spine of the filament are dominated by nonthermal effects. After correcting for optical depth effects, the mass of Maggie's dense spine is estimated to be 7.2x10^5^ solar masses. The mean number density of the filament is ~4cm^-3^, which is best explained by the filament being a mix of cold and warm neutral gas. In contrast to molecular filaments, the turbulent Mach number and velocity structure function suggest that Maggie is driven by transonic to moderately supersonic velocities that are likely associated with the Galactic potential rather than being subject to the effects of self-gravity or stellar feedback. The probability density function of the column density displays a log-normal shape around a mean of 4.8x10^20^cm^-2^, thus reflecting the absence of dominating effects of gravitational contraction.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/688/1029
- Title:
- Magnetic field in the SMC
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/688/1029
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a study of the magnetic field of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), carried out using radio Faraday rotation and optical starlight polarization data. Consistent negative rotation measures (RMs) across the SMC indicate that the line-of-sight magnetic field is directed uniformly away from us with a strength 0.19+/-0.06{mu}G. Applying the Chandrasekhar-Fermi method to starlight polarization data yields an ordered magnetic field in the plane of the sky of strength 1.6+/-0.4uG oriented at a position angle 4+/-12{deg}, measured counterclockwise from the great circle on the sky joining the SMC to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We construct a three-dimensional magnetic field model of the SMC, under the assumption that the RMs and starlight polarization probe the same underlying large-scale field. further test the pan-Magellanic field hypothesis.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AZh/94/598
- Title:
- Magnetic fields of radio pulsars
- Short Name:
- J/AZh/94/598
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The mechanism of magnetodipole braking of radio pulsars is used to calculate new values of the surface magnetic fields of neutron stars. The angles {beta} between the spin axes and magnetic moments of the neutron stars were estimated for 376 radio pulsars using three different methods. It is shown that small inclinations of magnetic axes dominate. The equatorial magnetic fields for the considered sample of pulsars are calculated using the {beta} values obtained. As a rule, these magnetic fields are a factor of a few higher than the corresponding values in known catalogs.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/385/1014
- Title:
- Magnetic field structure in W51A
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/385/1014
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present 850{mu}m imaging polarimetry of the W51A massive star forming region performed with SCUBA on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) situated close to the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on the night 6 October 2000. Positions, fluxes and polarimetry of the data points shown in Fig. 1 of the paper are reported in the file table2.dat. The positional offsets are given relative to W51d (19:23:39.0, +14:31:08, J2000). All fluxes (including the Stokes Q and U parameters) are given in units of Jy/beam. The position angles give the direction of the E-vector.
925. MAGPIS 20cm survey
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/131/2525
- Title:
- MAGPIS 20cm survey
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/131/2525
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the Multi-Array Galactic Plane Imaging Survey (MAGPIS), which maps portions of the first Galactic quadrant with an angular resolution, sensitivity, and dynamic range that surpass existing radio images of the Milky Way by more than an order of magnitude. The source detection threshold at 20cm is in the range 12mJy over the 85% of the survey region (5{deg}<l<32{deg}, |b|<0.8{deg}) not covered by bright extended emission; the angular resolution is ~6". We catalog over 3000 discrete sources (diameters mostly <30") and present an atlas of ~400 diffuse emission regions. New and archival data at 90cm for the whole survey area are also presented. Comparison of our catalogs and images with the Midcourse Space Experiment mid-infrared data allows us to provide preliminary discrimination between thermal and nonthermal sources. We identify 49 high-probability supernova remnant candidates, increasing by a factor of 7 the number of known remnants with diameters smaller than 5' in the survey region; several are pulsar wind nebula candidates and/or very small diameter remnants (D<45").
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/448/2344
- Title:
- MALT-45, a 7mm survey of the southern Galaxy
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/448/2344
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present the first results from the MALT-45 (Millimetre Astronomer's Legacy Team-45GHz) Galactic Plane survey. We have observed 5 square degrees (l=330{deg}-335{deg}, b=+/-0.5{deg}) for spectral lines in the 7mm band (42-44 and 48-49GHz), including CS (1-0), class I CH_3_OH masers in the 7(0,7)-6(1,6) A^+^ transition and SiO (1-0) v=0,1,2,3. MALT-45 is the first unbiased, large-scale, sensitive spectral line survey in this frequency range. In this paper, we present data from the survey as well as a few intriguing results; rigorous analyses of these science cases are reserved for future publications. Across the survey region, we detected 77 class I CH_3_OH masers, of which 58 are new detections, along with many sites of thermal and maser SiO emission and thermal CS. We found that 35 class I CH_3_OH masers were associated with the published locations of class II CH_3_OH, H_2_O and OH masers but 42 have no known masers within 60 arcsec. We compared the MALT-45 CS with NH_3_ (1,1) to reveal regions of CS depletion and high opacity, as well as evolved star-forming regions with a high ratio of CS to NH_3_. All SiO masers are new detections, and appear to be associated with evolved stars from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE). Generally, within SiO regions of multiple vibrational modes, the intensity decreases as v=1, 2, 3, but there are a few exceptions where v=2 is stronger than v=1.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/471/3915
- Title:
- MALT-45, 44 GHz class I methanol masers
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/471/3915
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We detail interferometric observations of 44GHz class I methanol masers detected by MALT-45 (a 7mm unbiased auto-correlated spectral-line Galactic-plane survey) using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. We detect 238 maser spots across 77 maser sites. Using high-resolution positions, we compare the class I CH_3_OH masers to other star formation maser species, including CS (1-0), SiO v=0 and the H53{alpha} radio-recombination line. Comparison between the cross- and auto-correlated data has allowed us to also identify quasi-thermal emission in the 44GHz class I methanol maser line. We find that the majority of class I methanol masers have small spatial and velocity ranges (<0.5pc and <5km/s), and closely trace the systemic velocities of associated clouds. Using 870{mu}m dust continuum emission from the ATLASGAL survey, we determine clump masses associated with class I masers, and find that they are generally associated with clumps between 1000 and 3000M_{sun}_. For each class I methanol maser site, we use the presence of OH masers and radio recombination lines to identify relatively evolved regions of high-mass star formation; we find that maser sites without these associations have lower luminosities and preferentially appear towards dark infrared regions.
928. MALT90 pilot survey
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/197/25
- Title:
- MALT90 pilot survey
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/197/25
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We describe a pilot survey conducted with the Mopra 22m radio telescope in preparation for the Millimeter Astronomy Legacy Team Survey at 90GHz (MALT90). We identified 182 candidate dense molecular clumps using six different selection criteria and mapped each source simultaneously in 16 different lines near 90GHz. We present a summary of the data and describe how the results of the pilot survey shaped the design of the larger MALT90 survey. We motivate our selection of target sources for the main survey based on the pilot detection rates and demonstrate the value of mapping in multiple lines simultaneously at high spectral resolution.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/606/664
- Title:
- MAMBO sources near NTT Deep Field
- Short Name:
- J/ApJ/606/664
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We discuss identifications for 18 sources from our Max-Planck- Millimeter-Bolometer (MAMBO) 1.2mm survey of the region surrounding the NTT Deep Field. We have obtained accurate positions from Very Large Array 1.4GHz interferometry, and in a few cases IRAM millimeter interferometry, and have also made deep BVRIzJK imaging at ESO.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/626/A28
- Title:
- M8 and Her 36 C_2_H and c-C_3_H_2_ data
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/626/A28
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- Hydrocarbons are ubiquitous in the interstellar medium, but their formation is still not well understood, depending on the physical environment they are found in. Messier 8 (M8) is host to one of the brightest Hii regions and photodissociation regions (PDRs) in our galaxy. With the observed C_2_H and c-C_3_H_2_ data toward M8, we aim at obtaining their densities and abundances and to shed some light on their formation mechanism. Using the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) 12m, and the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique (IRAM) 30m telescopes, we performed a line survey toward Herschel 36 (Her 36), which is the main ionizing stellar system in M8, and an imaging survey within 1.3x1.3pc around Her 36 of various transitions of C_2_H and C_3_H_2_. We used both Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium (LTE) and non-LTE methods to determine the physical conditions of the emitting gas along with the column densities and abundances of the observed species, which we compared with (updated) gas phase photochemical PDR models. In order to examine the role of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the formation of small hydrocarbons and to investigate their association with the Hii region, the PDR and the molecular cloud, we compared archival Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) 8{mu}m and the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) 250{mu}m continuum images with the C_2_H emission maps. We observed a total of three rotational transitions of C_2_H with their hyperfine structure components and four rotational transitions of C_3_H_2_ with ortho and para symmetries toward the HII region and the PDR of M8. Fragmentation of PAHs seems less likely to contribute to the formation of small hydrocarbons as the 8 m emission does not follow the distribution of C_2_H emission, which is more associated with the molecular cloud toward the north-west of Her 36. From the quantitative analysis, we obtained abundances of 10^-8 ^and 10^-9^ for C_2_H and c-C_3_H_2_ respectively, and volume densities of the hydrocarbon emitting gas in the range n(H_2_)~5x10^4^-5x10^6^cm^-3^. The observed column densities of C_2_H and c-C_3_H_2_ are reproduced reasonably well by our PDR models. This supports the idea that in high-UV flux PDRs, gas phase chemistry is sufficient to explain hydrocarbon abundances.