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A&A
Volume 623, March 2019
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Article Number | A105 | |
Number of page(s) | 16 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201834092 | |
Published online | 12 March 2019 |
A Sino-German λ6 cm polarisation survey of the Galactic plane
IX. H II regions⋆
1
National Astronomical Observatories, CAS, Jia-20 Datun Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, PR China
e-mail: xygao@nao.cas.cn
2
CAS Key Laboratory of FAST, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China
3
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
e-mail: preich@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
4
School of Astronomy, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, PR China
Received:
15
August
2018
Accepted:
20
December
2018
Context. Large-scale radio continuum surveys provide data to get insights into the physical properties of radio sources. H II regions are prominent radio sources produced by thermal emission of ionised gas around young massive stars.
Aims. We identify and analyse H II regions in the Sino-German λ6 cm polarisation survey of the Galactic plane.
Methods. Objects with flat radio continuum spectra together with infrared and/or Hα emission were identified as H II regions. For H II regions with small apparent sizes, we cross-matched the λ6 cm small-diameter source catalogue with the radio H II region catalogue compiled by Paladini and the infrared H II region catalogue based on the WISE data. Effelsberg λ21 cm and λ11 cm continuum survey data were used to determine source spectra. High angular resolution data from the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey and the NRAO VLA Sky Survey were used to solve the confusion when low angular resolution observations were not sufficient. Extended H II regions were identified by eye by overlaying the Paladini and the WISE H II regions onto the λ6 cm survey images for coincidences. The TT-plot method was employed for spectral index verification.
Results. A total of 401 H II regions were identified and their flux densities were determined with the Sino-German λ6 cm survey data. In the surveyed area, 76 pairs of sources are found to be duplicated in the Paladini H II region catalogue, mainly due to the non-distinction of previous observations with different angular resolutions and 78 objects in their catalogue are misclassified as H II regions, being actually planetary nebulae, supernova remnants, or extragalactic sources that have steep spectra. More than 30 H II regions and H II region candidates from our λ6 cm survey data, especially extended ones, do not have counterparts in the WISE H II region catalogue, of which 9 are identified for the first time. Our results imply that some more Galactic H II regions still await to be discovered and the combination of multi-domain observations is important for H II region identification. Based on the newly derived radio continuum spectra and the evidence of infrared emission, the previously identified SNRs G11.1−1.0, G20.4+0.1 and G16.4−0.5 are believed to be H II regions.
Key words: H II regions / radio continuum: general / methods: observational
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