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The Marseille Observatory Hα Survey: Comparisons by CO, 6 CM and IRAS Data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

D. Russeil
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
P. Amram
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
Y.P. Georgelin
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
Y.M. Georgelin
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
M. Marcelin
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
A. Viale
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Marseille
E. Le Coarer
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Grenoble
A. Castets
Affiliation:
Observatoire de Grenoble

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The Marseille Observatory Hα survey supplies Hα velocities of the ionized hydrogen over large zones of the sky towards the galactic plane. This survey, led at the ESO La Silla, uses a 36 cm telescope equiped with a scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer and a photon counting camera (Le Coarer et al. 1992). About 250 fields (39′×39′) toward the galactic plane have already been covered (see Figure 1) with a spatial resolution of 9″×9″ and a spectral resolution of 5 km s–1. This allows us to observe the discrete HII regions and the diffuse ionized gas widely distributed between them and to separate the distinct layers found along the line of sight. HII regions are often grouped on the molecular cloud surface, then CO, radio continuum and recombination lines surveys of the galactic plane are also essential to distinguish the HII region-molecular cloud complexes met on the line of sight, and in order to take dynamical effects into account, such as the champagne effect, for the kinematic distance determination. Indeed, the spiral structure pattern determination requires avoiding any artificial spread by clearly identifying the giant complexes composed of molecular clouds, HII regions, diffuse ionized hydrogen widely surrounding them, and exciting stars. On the other hand the ionized gas data (Hα and recombination lines) associated with IRAS data help us to study the nature of the young objects constituent of these complexes and to assess their detectability. We present two fields from the Hα survey and parallel large scale investigations.

Type
Part 3. The Interstellar Medium
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1998 

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