Extended H2 emission line sources from UWISH2

Froebrich, D., Makin, S.V., Davis, C.J., Gledhill, T.M., Kim, Y., Koo, B.C., Rowles, J., Eisloffel, J., Nicholas, J., Lee, J.J., and others. (2015) Extended H2 emission line sources from UWISH2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 454 . pp. 2586-2605. ISSN 0035-8711. (doi:10.1093/mnras/stv1729) (KAR id:51640)

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Abstract

We present the extended source catalogue for the UKIRT Wide Field Infrared Survey for H2 (UWISH2). The survey is unbiased along the inner Galactic Plane from l ? 357° to l ? 65° and |b| ? 1.5° and covers 209 deg2. A further 42.0 and 35.5 deg2 of high dust column density regions have been targeted in Cygnus and Auriga. We have identified 33 200 individual extended H2 features. They have been classified to be associated with about 700 groups of jets and outflows, 284 individual (candidate) planetary nebulae, 30 supernova remnants and about 1300 photodissociation regions. We find a clear decline of star formation activity (traced by H2 emission from jets and photodissociation regions) with increasing distance from the Galactic Centre. About 60 per cent of the detected candidate planetary nebulae have no known counterpart and 25 per cent of all supernova remnants have detectable H2 emission associated with them.

Item Type:	Article
DOI/Identification number:	10.1093/mnras/stv1729
Uncontrolled keywords:	stars: formation, H II regions, ISM: individual: Galactic Plane, ISM: jets and outflows, planetary nebulae: general, ISM: supernova remnants
Subjects:	Q Science > QB Astronomy > QB460 Astrophysics
Divisions:	Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Physics and Astronomy
Depositing User:	Dirk Froebrich
Date Deposited:	11 Nov 2015 13:15 UTC
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2024 11:26 UTC
Resource URI:	https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/51640 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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