Distances of Galactic HII regions

DOI

We resolve the kinematic distance ambiguity for 266 inner Galaxy HII regions out of a sample of 291 using existing HI and ^13^CO sky surveys. Our sample contains all HII regions with measured radio recombination line emission over the extent of the ^13^CO Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory Galactic Ring Survey (18<l<55{deg} and |b|<1) and contains ultra compact (UC), compact, and diffuse HII regions. We use two methods for resolving the distance ambiguity for each HII region: HI emission/absorption (HI E/A) and HI self-absorption (HI SA).

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.16900706
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/690/706
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Provenance
Creator Anderson L.D.; Bania T.M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2011
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics