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<ri:Resource created="2016-02-10T12:13:41Z" status="active" updated="2025-05-19T09:50:00Z" version="1.2" xmlns:cs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0" xmlns:ri="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/RegistryInterface/v1.0" xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0" xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/ConeSearch/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/ConeSearch.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v1.0 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VOResource.xsd http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v1.1 http://vo.ari.uni-heidelberg.de/docs/schemata/VODataService.xsd" xsi:type="vs:CatalogService"><title>Radio observations of Galactic WISE HII regions</title><shortName>J/ApJS/221/26</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/221/26</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22210026</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Anderson L.D.</name></creator><creator><name>Armentrout W.P.</name></creator><creator><name>Johnstone B.M.</name></creator><creator><name>Bania T.M.</name></creator><creator><name>Balser D.S.,Wenger T.V.</name></creator><creator><name>Cunningham V.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2018-01-12T09:27:30Z</date><date role="Created">2016-02-10T12:13:41Z</date><contact><name>CDS support team</name><address>CDS, Observatoire de Strasbourg, 11 rue de l'Universite, F-67000 Strasbourg, France</address><email>cds-question@unistra.fr</email></contact></curation><content><subject>h-ii-regions</subject><subject>radio-continuum-emission</subject><subject>interstellar-medium</subject><description>The WISE Catalog of Galactic H II Regions contains ~2000 H II region candidates lacking ionized gas spectroscopic observations. All candidates have the characteristic H II region mid-infrared morphology of WISE 12{mu}m emission surrounding 22{mu}m emission, and additionally have detected radio continuum emission. We here report Green Bank Telescope hydrogen radio recombination line (RRL) and radio continuum detections in the X-band (9GHz; 3cm) of 302 WISE H II region candidates (out of 324 targets observed) in the zone 225{deg}&gt;=l&gt;=-20{deg}, |b|&lt;=6{deg}. Here we extend the sky coverage of our H II region Discovery Survey, which now contains nearly 800 HII regions distributed across the entire northern sky. We provide LSR velocities for the 302 detections and kinematic distances for 131 of these. Of the 302 new detections, 5 have (l, b, v) coordinates consistent with the Outer Scutum-Centaurus Arm (OSC), the most distant molecular spiral arm of the Milky Way. Due to the Galactic warp, these nebulae are found at Galactic latitudes &gt;1{deg} in the first Galactic quadrant, and therefore were missed in previous surveys of the Galactic plane. One additional region has a longitude and velocity consistent with the OSC but lies at a negative Galactic latitude (G039.183-01.422; -54.9km/s). With Heliocentric distances &gt;22kpc and Galactocentric distances &gt;16kpc, the OSC H II regions are the most distant known in the Galaxy. We detect an additional three HII regions near ~=150{deg} whose LSR velocities place them at Galactocentric radii &gt;19kpc. 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