THOR survey in northern Galactic plane Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wang Y.
  2. Bihr S.
  3. Rugel M.
  4. Beuther H.
  5. Johnston K.G.
  6. Ott J.
  7. Soler J.D.,Brunthaler A.
  8. Anderson L.D.
  9. Urquhart J.S.
  10. Klessen R.S.
  11. Linz H.,McClure-Griffiths N.M.
  12. Glover S.C.O.
  13. Menten K.M.
  14. Bigiel F.
  15. Hoare M.,Longmore S.N.
  16. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

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.

Keywords
  1. surveys
  2. galaxy-planes
  3. milky-way-galaxy
  4. radio-sources
  5. radio-continuum-emission
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2018A&A...619A.124W
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/A+A/619/A124
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/619/A124
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.36190124

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History

2018-11-14T07:55:48Z
Resource record created
2018-11-14T07:55:48Z
Created
2020-09-01T07:47:23Z
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