HII regions identified with WMAPS and GLIMPSE Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Murray N.
  2. Rahman M.
  3. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We use the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) maximum entropy method foreground emission map combined with previously determined distances to giant HII regions to measure the free-free flux at Earth and the free-free luminosity of the Galaxy. We find a total flux f_{nu}_=54211Jy and a flux from 88 sources of f_{nu}_=36043Jy. The bulk of the sources are at least marginally resolved, with mean radii ~60pc, electron density n_e_~9cm^-3^, and filling factor {Phi}HII~0.005 (over the Galactic gas disk). We use GLIMPSE and Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) 8um images to show that the bulk of the free-free luminosity is associated with bubbles having radii r~5-100pc, with a mean of ~20pc. These bubbles are leaky, so that ionizing photons emitted inside the bubble escape and excite free-free emission beyond the bubble walls, producing WMAP sources that are larger than the 8um bubbles. We suggest that the WMAP sources are the counterparts of the extended low density HII regions described by Mezger (1978A&A....70..565M). The 18 most luminous WMAP sources emit half the total Galactic ionizing flux.

Keywords
  1. h-ii-regions
  2. milky-way-galaxy
  3. interstellar-medium
  4. infrared-sources
  5. radio-sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2010ApJ...709..424M
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ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/709/424
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17090424

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History

2012-03-29T10:28:49Z
Resource record created
2012-03-29T10:28:49Z
Created
2017-12-12T14:45:14Z
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