CO obs. of molecular clouds in the 2nd quadrant Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Sun Y.
  2. Xu Y.
  3. Yang J.
  4. Li F.-C.
  5. Du X.-Y.
  6. Zhang S.-B.
  7. Zhou X.
  8. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

Combining H I data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey and CO data from the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting project (MWISP), we have identified a new segment of a spiral arm between Galactocentric radii of 15 and 19kpc that apparently lies beyond the Outer Arm in the second Galactic quadrant. Over most of its length, the arm is 400-600pc thick in z. The new arm appears to be the extension of the distant arm recently discovered by Dame & Thaddeus (2011ApJ...734L..24D) as well as the Scutum-Centaurus Arm into the outer second quadrant. Our current survey identified a total of 72 molecular clouds with masses on the order of 10^2^-10^4^M_{sun}_ that probably lie in the new arm. When all of the available data from the CO molecular clouds are fit, the best-fitting spiral model gives a pitch angle of 9.3{deg}+/-0.7{deg}.

Keywords
  1. molecular-clouds
  2. milky-way-galaxy
  3. radio-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2015ApJ...798L..27S
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.17989027

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History

2015-06-30T08:14:22Z
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2015-06-30T08:14:22Z
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2017-10-16T10:43:02Z
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