Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-12-11
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
17 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
Radio recombination lines (RRLs) can be used to determine the emission measure unambiguously along the Galactic plane. We use the deep (2100s per beam) HI Parkes Zone of Avoidance survey which includes 3 RRLs (H$166\alpha$, H$167\alpha$ and H$168\alpha$) within its bandwidth. The region $\ell = 36\degr$ to $44\degr$, $b = -4\degr$ to $+4\degr$ is chosen to include emission from the Local, Sagittarius and Scutum arms. An $8\degr \times 8\degr$ data cube centred at $(\ell, b) = (40\degr, 0\degr)$ is constructed of RRL spectra with velocity and spatial resolution of 27$\kms$ and 15.5 arcmin, respectively. Well-known \hii regions are identified as well as the diffuse RRL emission on the Galactic plane. A Galactic latitude section of the integrated RRL emission across the Galactic plane delineates the brightness temperature ($T_{b}$) distribution which has a half-power width in latitude of $\simeq 1\fdg5$. A value of the electron temperature $T_{e} \simeq 8000$ K is derived from a comparison with the WMAP free-free MEM model. The $T_{b}$ distribution from the present RRL data is combined with the WMAP 5-yr data to derive the anomalous dust on the Galactic ridge. In this paper we demonstrate that diffuse ionized emission on the Galactic ridge can be recovered using RRLs from the ZOA survey. This method is therefore able to complement the \ha data at low Galactic latitudes, to enable an all-sky free-free template to be derived.
Alves Marta I. R.
Auld Robert R.
Calabretta Mark
Davies Rodney D.
Davis Richard J.
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