Molecular cloud distances from CO & Gaia data Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Yan Q.-Z.
  2. Yang Ji
  3. Su Y.
  4. Sun Y.
  5. Xu Ye
  6. Wang H.
  7. Zhou X.
  8. Wang C.
  9. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

The principle of the background-eliminated extinction-parallax (BEEP) method is examining the extinction difference between on- and off-cloud regions to reveal the extinction jump caused by molecular clouds, thereby revealing the distance in complex dust environments. The BEEP method requires high-quality images of molecular clouds and high-precision stellar parallaxes and extinction data, which can be provided by the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) CO survey and the Gaia DR2 catalog, as well as supplementary AV extinction data. In this work, the BEEP method is further improved (BEEP-II) to measure molecular cloud distances in a global search manner. Applying the BEEP-II method to three regions mapped by the MWISP CO survey, we collectively measured 238 distances for 234 molecular clouds. Compared with previous BEEP results, the BEEP-II method measures distances efficiently, particularly for those molecular clouds with large angular size or in complicated environments, making it suitable for distance measurements of molecular clouds in large samples.

Keywords
  1. molecular-clouds
  2. interstellar-medium
  3. co-line-emission
  4. extinction
  5. stellar-distance
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...922....8Y
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Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19220008

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2023-04-11T16:54:37Z
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2023-04-11T16:54:37Z
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2023-08-25T11:05:55Z
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