Issue |
A&A
Volume 429, Number 2, January II 2005
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Page(s) | 497 - 507 | |
Section | Galactic structure, stellar clusters, and populations | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20048090 | |
Published online | 17 December 2004 |
A deep H
survey of the Milky Way
VI. The l = 332° area
1
LAM, 2 Place Le Verrier, 13248 Marseille Cedex 04, France e-mail: delphine.russeil@oamp.fr
2
Observatoire de Grenoble, BP 53X, Grenoble Cedex, France
3
Department of Physics, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia; Anglo-Australian Observatory, PO Box 296, Epping NSW 1710, Australia
Received:
15
April
2004
Accepted:
January
1900
The Galactic plane has been observed between 330° to
336° as part of a
velocity resolved Hα survey of the southern Milky Way using a scaning Fabry-Perot on a 36 cm telescope.
The detailed analysis of the resultant Hα profiles
reveals the presence of several layers of ionized gas with different velocities over the surveyed region. We have studied in detail both the 2-D spatial and velocity structure of the HII regions RCW102, RCW104 and RCW106. Combining these Hα observations with stellar and radio data we provide estimates for the most probable
distances of these different layers. The first layer at -5 km
is local emission linked to the Sco-Cen association at 170 pc. The next layer, around -24 km
, is at 1.9 kpc and traces the near section of the Sagittarius-Carina arm. Well connected to the Sagittarius-Carina arm portions
traced in the adjacent regions (
328° and
338° area), the arm, in this longitude
range, clearly shows and confirms the departure from a logarithmic spiral.
The Scutum-Crux arm is also traced in this area by
faint and diffuse emission at -40 km
which can be placed at 3.2 kpc.
The layer at -52 km
is the major spiral-arm feature
of the studied area; its most probable stellar distance is 4.2 kpc.
An important emission component is also observed at -65 km
in the southern part of the surveyed area.
This mainly patchy and filamentary emission we identify as the possible optical counterpart of a supernovae remnant
centered at
332.0°,
°.
Finally, two complexes have been determined around 12.5 kpc
which places them in the far section of the Norma arm.
Key words: ISM: HII regions / Galaxy: structure / ISM: kinematics and dynamics
© ESO, 2005
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