The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey. II.

DOI

We present a catalog of 8358 sources extracted from images produced by the Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey (BGPS). The BGPS is a survey of the millimeter dust continuum emission from the northern Galactic plane. The catalog sources are extracted using a custom algorithm, Bolocat, which was designed specifically to identify and characterize objects in the large-area maps generated from the Bolocam instrument. The catalog products are designed to facilitate follow-up observations of these relatively unstudied objects. The catalog is 98% complete from 0.4Jy to 60Jy over all object sizes for which the survey is sensitive (<3.5'). We find that the sources extracted can best be described as molecular clumps-large dense regions in molecular clouds linked to cluster formation. We find that the flux density distribution of sources follows a power law with dN/dS{prop.to}S^-2.4+/-0.1^ and that the mean Galactic latitude for sources is significantly below the midplane: =(-0.095+/-0.001{deg}).

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Identifier
DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.21880123
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/188/123
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Metadata Access http://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/pmh/pubreg.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_b2find&identifier=ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/188/123
Provenance
Creator Rosolowsky E.; Dunham M.K.; Ginsburg A.; Bradley E.T.; Aguirre J.,Bally J.; Battersby C.; Cyganowski C.; Dowell D.; Drosback M.; Evans N.J.,Glenn J.; Harvey P.; Stringfellow G.S.; Walawender J.; Williams J.P.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2010
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OpenAccess true
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Representation
Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; Interstellar medium; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics