Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-06-10
Astrophys.J.Suppl.154:553-578,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in ApJS (October 2004, v.154 issue); 50 pages, 3 figures, 7 tables
Scientific paper
10.1086/423247
We report simultaneous H110alpha and H2CO line observations with the NRAO Green Bank Telescope toward 72 H II regions in the SPITZER/GLIMPSE survey area (|l| = 10 deg - 65 deg and |b| = 1 deg). We used the H110alpha line to establish the velocity of the H II regions and H2CO absorption lines to distinguish between near and far distances. We examined the projected location of H II regions whose distance ambiguities have been resolved (in this work and other similar studies) in the Galactic plane and in a longitude-velocity diagram for a recognizable spiral arm pattern. Although the highest density of points in the position-position plot approximately follows the spiral arms proposed by Taylor and Cordes (1993), the dispersion is still about as large as the separation between their proposed arms. The longitude-velocity plot shows an increase in the density of sources at the points where the spiral arm loci proposed by Taylor and Cordes (1993) are approaching the locus of tangent point velocities and a lower density between the arm loci. However, it is not possible to trace spiral arms over significant segments of Galactic longitude in the longitude-velocity plot. We conclude that a very large number of H II regions in combination with more sophisticated Galactic rotation models will be required to obtain a more continuous spiral pattern from kinematic studies of H II regions than from fully sampled surveys of H I or CO.
Araya Ernesto
Churchwell Edward
Hofner Peter
Kurtz Stan
Sewilo Marta
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