We performed a systematic search for broad-velocity-width molecular features (BVFs) in the disk part of our Galaxy by using the CO J = 1-0 survey data obtained with the Nobeyama Radio Observatory 45 m telescope. From this search, 58 BVFs were identified. In comparisons with the infrared and radio continuum images, 36 BVFs appeared to have both infrared and radio continuum counterparts, and 15 of them are described as molecular outflows from young stellar objects in the literature. In addition, 21 BVFs have infrared counterparts only, and eight of them are described as molecular outflows in the literature. One BVF (CO 16.134-0.553) does not have any luminous counterpart in the other wavelengths, which suggests that it may be an analog of high-velocity compact clouds in the Galactic center.
@article{arxiv.2103.13728,
title = {Broad-velocity-width Molecular Features in the Galactic Plane},
author = {Hiroki Yokozuka and Tomoharu Oka and Shunya Takekawa and Yuhei Iwata and Shiho Tsujimoto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.13728},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
18 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication on the Astrophysical Journal