J/ApJ/799/29ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/799/29doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17990029CDSEllsworth-Bowers T.P.Rosolowsky E.Glenn J.Ginsburg A.Evans II N.J.,Battersby C.Shirley Y.L.Svoboda B.2018-05-14T05:33:01Z2015-07-01T12:45:32ZCDS support team

CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France

cds-question@unistra.frmolecular-cloudsmillimeter-astronomysubmillimeter-astronomyWe present an expanded distance catalog for 1710 molecular cloud structures identified in the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) version 2, representing a nearly threefold increase over the previous BGPS distance catalog. We additionally present a new method for incorporating extant data sets into our Bayesian distance probability density function (DPDF) methodology. To augment the dense-gas tracers (e.g., HCO^+^(3-2), NH_3_(1,1)) used to derive line-of-sight velocities for kinematic distances, we utilize the Galactic Ring Survey (GRS) ^13^CO(1-0) data to morphologically extract velocities for BGPS sources. The outline of a BGPS source is used to select a region of the GRS ^13^CO data, along with a reference region to subtract enveloping diffuse emission, to produce a line profile of ^13^CO matched to the BGPS source. For objects with a HCO^+^(3-2) velocity, ~95% of the new ^13^CO(1-0) velocities agree with that of the dense gas. A new prior DPDF for kinematic distance ambiguity (KDA) resolution, based on a validated formalism for associating molecular cloud structures with known objects from the literature, is presented. We demonstrate this prior using catalogs of masers with trigonometric parallaxes and H II regions with robust KDA resolutions. The distance catalog presented here contains well-constrained distance estimates for 20% of BGPS V2 sources, with typical distance uncertainties <~0.5kpc. Approximately 75% of the well-constrained sources lie within 6 kpc of the Sun, concentrated in the Scutum-Centaurus arm. Galactocentric positions of objects additionally trace out portions of the Sagittarius, Perseus, and Outer arms in the first and second Galactic quadrants, and we also find evidence for significant regions of interarm dense gas.2015ApJ...799...29Ehttps://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/799/29CatalogResearchIsServedByTAP VizieR generic serviceIsServedByConesearch servicerelated-toJ/ApJS/209/2 : The BGPS X. Dense molecular gas (Shirley+, 2013)J/ApJ/770/39 : BGPS VIII. MIR kinematic distances (Ellsworth-Bowers+, 2013)J/MNRAS/426/1972 : Southern Galactic Plane Survey, HOPS. II (Purcell+, 2012)J/A+A/544/A146 : ATLASGAL cold high-mass clumps with NH_3_ (Wienen+, 2012)J/ApJ/754/62 : HRDS III. HII region kinematic distances (Anderson+, 2012)J/MNRAS/422/3178 : Distances of 793 BGPS sources (Eden+, 2012)J/ApJ/741/110 : The BGPS. VII. Massive star-forming regions (Dunham+, 2011)J/MNRAS/416/1764 : H_2_O Southern Galactic Plane Survey (HOPS) (Walsh+, 2011)J/ApJS/195/14 : The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. V. (Schlingman+, 2011)J/ApJ/731/90 : Mid-IR content of BGPS sources (Dunham+, 2011)J/A+A/526/A151 : Hi-Gal sources distance determination (Russeil+, 2011)J/ApJ/723/492 : Physical data of GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2010)J/ApJS/188/123 : The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. II. (Rosolowsky+, 2010)J/ApJ/699/1153 : Distances to GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2009)J/ApJ/699/1092 : Giant molecular clouds (SRBY) (Heyer+, 2009)J/ApJS/182/131 : Molecular clouds and clumps in the GRS (Rathborne+, 2009)J/ApJ/690/706 : Distances of Galactic HII regions (Anderson+, 2009)J/ApJ/680/349 : Galactic distribution of IRDCs (Jackson+, 2008)J/ApJ/653/1325 : Galactic distribution of infrared dark clouds (Simon+, 2006)J/ApJ/639/227 : MSX IRDC candidate catalog (Simon+, 2006)J/ApJS/144/47 : Outer galaxy molecular cloud catalog (Brunt+, 2003)J/A+A/275/67 : Velocity Field of the outer Galaxy (Brand+ 1993)http://irsa.ipac.caltech.edu/data/BOLOCAM_GPS : IRSA BGPS archivehttps://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/799/29https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/799/29http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/799/29https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/799/29https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/799/29http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/799/29GETtext/xml+votablehttps://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tapCone search capability for table J/ApJ/799/29/table5 (Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) version 2 distance catalog)https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table5?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table5?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table5?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true270.2533-22.265820.005555555555555556Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/799/29/table2 (HII region kinematic Distance Ambiguity resolutions (KDA) from HRDS (HII Region Discovery Survey; Bania et al. 2010ApJ...718L.106B, 2012ApJ...759...96B))https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table2?https://vizier.iucaa.in/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table2?http://vizieridia.saao.ac.za/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/799/29/table2?GETtext/xml+votable180.050000true274.41976-15.879640.0055555555555555565/3577 3589 7278 7376 7377 7383 7564 7578 7579 7604 7605 7651 7654 7673 7679 6/3290 3301 3302 3303 3304 3309 3310 3312 3315 3648 3649 3650 12970 12971 12974 14307 14313 14315 14316 14317 14336 14337 14340 14341 14352 14353 14355 14365 14403 14406 14408 14409 14426 14603 14618 14621 14622 14644 14667 14671 14682 14688 14689 14691 14692 14693 14704 15368 23969 23980 23982 23983 24324 24325 28915 28918 28919 29090 29091 29094 29096 29097 29100 29101 29103 29116 29118 29119 29162 29457 29460 29461 29522 29523 29528 29529 29531 30216 30218 30219 30222 30223 30240 30241 30244 30245 30247 30260 30262 30263 30268 30269 30271 30306 30330 30404 30405 30592 30594 30595 30598 30600 30601 30622 30623 30641 30644 30645 30688 30690 30691 30701 30706 30707 30710 30712 30713 30715 320851.8058623843283312e-22 1.8058623843283312e-22https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/moc/J/ApJ/799/29?format=asciiRadiodefaultJ/ApJ/799/29/table5Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS) version 2 distance catalogrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintSeq[2216/8225] Bolocat V2.1 catalog numbermeta.idintGLONGalactic longitudedegpos.galactic.lonGLATGalactic latitudedegpos.galactic.latFlux[0.05/201] Integrated BGPS flux density (1.1mm)Jyphot.flux.density;em.mm.200-400GHzfloate_Flux[0.03/13] Standard error on fluxJystat.error;phot.fluxfloatVLSR[-73.6/121.6] LSR velocitykm/sphys.veloc;pos.lsrfloatr_VLSRReference for VLSR (1)meta.ref;phys.veloc;pos.framecharKDAKDA resolution: N=near, F=far, T=tangent, O=outer Galaxy, U=unconstrainedmeta.codecharPML[0.5/1] Maximum-likelihood probability (2)stat.fit.goodnessfloatdML[0.5/16.5]? Maximum-likelihood distancekpcpos.distance;pos.heliocentricfloatnullablee_dML[0.02/2.4]? Lower error in dMLkpcstat.errorfloatnullableE_dML[0.02/2.3]? Upper error in dMLkpcstat.error;stat.maxfloatnullabledbar[1.3/8.7]? Weighted-average distancekpcpos.distance;pos.heliocentricfloatnullablee_dbar[0/1.4]? Error in dbarkpcstat.errorfloatnullableRgal[1.5/12.1] Galactocentric radius (3)kpcpos.distance;pos.galactocentricfloate_Rgal[0/1.3] Lower error in Rgalkpcstat.error;pos.distance;pos.galactocentricfloatE_Rgal[0/1.3] Upper error in Rgalkpcstat.error;stat.maxfloatZ[-130/267]? Galactocentric vertical positionpcpos.distance;pos.galactocentricfloatnullablee_Z[5/53]? Error in Z (4)pcstat.error;src.redshiftfloatnullablepPDisplay data from previous BGPS papers within 55": Paper II (J/ApJS/188/123), V (J/ApJS/195/14), VI (J/ApJ/731/90), VII (J/ApJ/741/110) and X (J/ApJS/209/2)meta.ref.urlintnullableSimbadSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.ref.urlchar_RA.icrsRight ascension (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.ranullableindexed_DE.icrsDeclination (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.decnullableindexedJ/ApJ/799/29/table2HII region kinematic Distance Ambiguity resolutions (KDA) from HRDS (HII Region Discovery Survey; Bania et al. 2010ApJ...718L.106B, 2012ApJ...759...96B)SimbadNameSimbad column added by the CDSmeta.idcharrecnoRecord number assigned by the VizieR team. Should Not be used for identification.meta.recordintNameObject name (ALLL.ll+BB.bba or GLLL.lll+B.bbb; C=compact, D=diffuse, U=ultra compact, see Ref)meta.id;meta.maincharGLONGalactic longitudedegpos.galactic.lonGLATGalactic latitudedegpos.galactic.latVLSR[-75.2/119.5] Local standard of rest velocitykm/sphys.veloc;pos.lsrfloatDist[1.1/19.7] Heliocentric distancekpcpos.distancefloatKDA[NFT] KDA resolution: N=near, F=far or T=tangentmeta.codecharq_KDA[AB] Quality factor: A=most confident (1)meta.code.qualcharRefReference (2)meta.ref;pos.frameintHRDSDisplay data from HRDS catalogs (Anderson et al. 2012, J/ApJ/754/62; 2009, J/ApJ/690/706) within 5"meta.ref.urlintnullable_RA.icrsRight ascension (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.ranullableindexed_DE.icrsDeclination (ICRS) (computed by VizieR, not part of the original data)degpos.eq.decnullableindexed