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<ri:Resource created="2016-02-22T18:49:47Z" 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>Galactic Worms</title><shortName>J/ApJ/390/108</shortName><identifier>ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/390/108</identifier><altIdentifier>doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.13900108</altIdentifier><curation><publisher ivo-id="ivo://CDS">CDS</publisher><creator><name>Koo B.-C.</name></creator><creator><name>Heiles C.</name></creator><creator><name>Reach W.T.</name></creator><date role="Updated">2017-10-02T19:28:44Z</date><date role="Created">2016-02-22T18:49:47Z</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-i-line-emission</subject><subject>galaxy-planes</subject><subject>milky-way-galaxy</subject><subject>radio-continuum-emission</subject><subject>h-ii-regions</subject><subject>interstellar-medium</subject><description>A catalog of candidates for the Galactic Worms that are possibly the walls surrounding the superbubbles is compiled; 118 isolated structures that appear both in HI and in IR (60 and 100{mu}m). 52 are possibly associated with HII regions. 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