Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-12-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
30 pages, 19 figures, two catalogs; submitted to ApJS; maps and catalogs downloadable from <http://find.spa.umn.edu/quad/quad_
Scientific paper
We present a catalog of compact sources derived from the QUaD Galactic Plane Survey. The survey covers ~800 square degrees of the inner galaxy (|b|<4 degrees) in Stokes I, Q and U parameters at 100 and 150 GHz, with angular resolution 5 and 3.5 arcminutes. 505 unique sources are identified in I, of which 239 are spatially matched between frequency bands, with 50 (216) detected at 100 (150) GHz alone; 182 sources are identified as ultracompact HII (UCHII) regions. Approximating the distribution of total intensity source fluxes as a power-law, we find a slope of $\gamma_{S,100}=-1.8\pm0.4$ at 100 GHz, and $\gamma_{S,150}=-2.2\pm0.4$ at 150 GHz. Similarly, the power-law index of the source two-point angular correlation function is $\gamma_{\theta,100}=-1.21\pm0.04$ and $\gamma_{\theta,150}=-1.25\pm0.04$. The total intensity spectral index distribution peaks at $\alpha_{I}\sim0.25$, indicating that dust emission is not the only source of radiation produced by these objects between 100 and 150 GHz; free-free radiation is likely significant in the 100 GHz band. Four sources are detected in polarized intensity P, of which three have matching counterparts in I. Three of the polarized sources lie close to the galactic center, Sagittarius A*, Sagittarius B2 and the Galactic Radio Arc, while the fourth is RCW 49, a bright HII region. An extended polarized source, undetected by the source extraction algorithm on account of its $\sim0.5^{\circ}$ size, is identified visually, and is an isolated example of large-scale polarized emission oriented distinctly from the bulk galactic dust polarization.
Ade Peter
Bock James Joseph
Bowden Mark
Brown Mark L.
Cahill Gary
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