I Emission and Absorption in the Southern Galactic Plane
Survey1

N. M. McClure-Griffiths ,
John M. Dickey ,
B. M. Gaensler ,
A. J. Green ,
R. F. Haynes ,
M. H. Wieringa
, PASA, 18 (1), in press.
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I Emission and Absorption in the Southern Galactic Plane
Survey1

N. M. McClure-Griffiths 1 - John M. Dickey 1 - B. M. Gaensler 2 - A. J. Green 3 - R. F. Haynes 4 - M. H. Wieringa 4

1 Department of Astronomy, University of Minnesota, 116 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
naomi@astro.umn.edu, john@astro.umn.edu

2 Center for Space Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 70 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
bmg@space.mit.edu

3 Astrophysics Department, School of Physics, Sydney University, NSW 2006
agreen@physics.usyd.edu.au

4 Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, P.O. Box 76, Epping, NSW 2121
Raymond.Haynes@atnf.csiro.au, Mark.Wieringa@atnf.csiro.au

Abstract:

We present preliminary results from the Southern Galactic Plane Survey (SGPS) Test Region and Parkes data. As part of the pilot project for the Southern Galactic Plane Survey, observations of a Test Region (

$325\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}5 \leq l \leq 333\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}5$;

$-0\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}5 \leq b \leq 3\mbox{$.\!\!^\circ$}5$) were completed in December 1998. Single dish observations of the full survey region (

$253\hbox{$^\circ$}\leq l \leq 358\hbox{$^\circ$}$;

$\vert b\vert \leq 1\hbox{$^\circ$}$) with the Parkes Radio Telescope were completed in March 2000. We present a sample of SGPS H I data with particular attention to the smallest and largest scale structures seen in absorption and emission, respectively. On the large scale, we detect many prominent H I shells. On the small scale, we note extremely compact, cold clouds seen in H I self-absorption. We explore how these two classes of objects probe opposite ends of the H I spatial power spectrum.

Keywords: Galaxy -- ISM: bubbles, clouds, structure





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