The Radial Extent and Warp of the Ionized Galactic Disk. I. A VLBA Survey of Extragalactic Sources Toward the Anticenter

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1997-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9711175v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, LaTeX2e with AASTeX macro aaspp4, accepted for publication in ApJS, Vol. 115, 1998 April; Figures 1, 3, and 4 includ

Scientific paper

10.1086/313084

We report multifrequency Very Long Baseline Array observations of twelve active galactic nuclei seen toward the Galactic anticenter. All of the sources are at |b| < 10 degrees and seven have |b| < 0.5 degrees. Our VLBA observations can detect an enhancement in the angular broadening of these sources due to an extended H II disk, if the orientation of the H II disk in the outer Galaxy is similar to that of the H I disk. Such an extended H II disk is suggested by the C IV absorption in a quasar's spectrum, the appearance of H I disks of nearby spiral galaxies, and models of Ly-alpha cloud absorbers and the Galactic fountain. We detect eleven of the twelve sources at one or more frequencies; nine of the sources are compact and suitable for an angular broadening analysis. A preliminary analysis of the observed angular diameters suggests that the H II disk does not display considerable warping or flaring and does not extend to large Galactocentric distances (R >~ 100 kpc). A companion paper (Lazio & Cordes 1997) combines these observations with those in the literature and presents a more comprehensive analysis.

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