Automatic Shell Detection in CGPS Data

Details Automatic Shell Detection in CGPS Data Automatic Shell Detection in CGPS Data

2000-10-06

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0010140v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

6 pages, 4 figures; to appear in the proceedings of the conference "Interacting Winds from Massive Stars" (ASP Conference Seri

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A numerical code aiming at the automatic detection of spherical expanding HI shells in radio data-cubes is presented. The following five shell parameters are allowed to vary within a specified range: angular radius, expansion velocity and three center coordinates (galactic coordinates l and b, and systemic radial velocity V). We discuss several factors which can reduce the sensitivity of the shell detection: the presence of noise (both instrumental and "structural"), the fragmentation and asphericity of the shell and the inhomogeneity of the background and/or foreground emission. The code is tested on four objects: two HII regions and two early B stars. We use HI data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey. In all four cases the evidence for an expanding HI shell is found.

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