Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-09-13
Astrophys.J.Suppl.155:421-550,2004
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
48 pages. The complete version of the paper with 140 figures and four tables can be found in the ApJ preprint website: http:
Scientific paper
10.1086/425257
We present a sensitive $\lambda$20cm VLA continuum survey of the Galactic center region using new and archival data based on multi-configuration observations taken with relatively uniform {\it uv} coverage. The high dynamic range images cover the regions within $-2^\circ < l < 5^\circ$ and $-40' < b < 40'$ with a spatial resolution of $\approx30''$ and 10$''$. The wide field imaging technique is used to construct a low-resolution mosaic of 40 overlapping pointings. The mosaic image includes the Effelsburg observations filling the low spatial frequency {\it uv} data. We also present high resolution images of twenty three overlapping fields using DnC and CnB array configurations. The survey has resulted in a catalog of 345 discrete sources as well as 140 images revealing structural details of HII regions, SNRs, pulsar wind nebulae and more than 80 linear filaments distributed toward the complex region of the Galactic center. These observations show the evidence for an order of magnitude increase in the number of faint linear filaments with typical lengths of few arcminutes. Many of the filaments show morphological characteristics similar to the Galactic center nonthermal radio filaments (NRFs). The linear filaments are not isolated but are generally clustered in star forming regions where prominent NRFs had been detected previously. The extensions of many of these linear filaments appear to terminate at either a compact source or a resolved shell-like thermal source. A relationship between the filaments, the compact and extended thermal sources as well as a lack of preferred orientation for many RFs should constrain models that are proposed to explain the origin of nonthermal radio filaments in the Galactic center.
Cotton William
Hewitt Jacqueline
Yusef-Zadeh Farah
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