V/74 CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA IN GALACTIC STAR-FORMING REGIONS ================================================================================ CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA IN GALACTIC STAR-FORMING REGIONS V.S.AVEDISOVA ASTRONOMICAL COUNCIL OF THE USSR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, MOSCOW Bull. Inf. CDS 41, 25 (1992) ================================================================================ The present description DOES NOT replace the documents referenced above. File Summary: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- File Name Lrecl Records Explanations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro 80 . This file catalog 160 16671 The main part of the Catalogue refs 80 2407 References (cols 157-160) bib 80 2407 Bibliography order by author index 34 1333 Index of Sources -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ INTRODUCTION STAR-FORMING REGIONS ARE THE SITES IN THE GALACTIC DISK WHERE A CONCENTRATION OF PROTOSTARS, YOUNG STARS, HII REGIONS, MASER SOURCES, GAS AND DUST CLOUDS ARE OBSERVED. THE CATALOGUE OF OBSERVATIONAL DATA IN GALACTIC STAR-FORMING REGIONS REPRESENTS A COMPILATION OF THE DATA FROM VARIOUS OPTICAL, RADIO (IN CONTINUUM AND LINE) AND INFRARED SURVEYS OF THE GALACTIC PLANE AND ALSO FROM PAPERS ON INDIVIDUAL SOURCES. OPTICAL AND RADIO DATA GIVE THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE RADIATION AND KINEMATICS OF HII REGIONS, EXCITED BY YOUNG MASSIVE STARS. THE INFRARED DATA TELL US ABOUT THE RADIATION OF DUST COMPONENT OF MOLECULAR CLOUD OR PROTOSTAR SHELL, SURROUNDING THE FORMING STARS. THE MOLECULAR-LINE RADIATION OBSERVED IN BOTH INFRARED AND RADIO IS THE SOURCE OF OUR KNOWLEDGE ABOUT KINEMATICS AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MOLECULAR CLOUD COMPLEXES, CONNECTED GENETICALLY WITH THE YOUNG STARS. THE CATALOGUE MAINLY INCLUDES REGIONS WHERE HOT MASSIVE STARS ARE BORN BECAUSE ONLY SUCH STARS PRODUCE HII REGIONS DETECTED IN RADIO AND CAN SIGNIFICANTLY HEAT THE DUST IN PROTOSTELLAR CLOUDS. THESE REGIONS ARE ENERGETICALLY PROMINENT IN THE RADIO AND IN THE INFRARED AND THEREFORE ARE REPRESENTED IN THE CATALOGUE MOST COMPLETELY. THE STAR-FORMING REGIONS INCLUDED IN THE CATALOGUE ARE VERY DIFFERENT. THEIR SIZES ARE RANGING FROM TENTH TO TENS AND MORE PARSECS. THE REGIONS ARE NOT EQUIVALENT. SOME OF THEM, ESPECIALLY NEAR THE SUN, HAVE A RECOGNIZED COMPLEX STRUCTURE, AND THE SEPARATE SUBSYSTEMS LOOK LIKE INDEPENDENT STAR-FORMING REGIONS. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE CATALOGUE WAS DESIGNED TO DESCRIBE THESE COMPLEX SUBSTRUCTURES. THE POSSIBLE RELATIONS BETWEEN OTHERS MORE DISTANT SOURCES ARE NOT SO CLEAR AND THEY ARE LEFT AS INDIVIDUAL ONES. CATALOGUE ENTRIES ARE THE GALACTIC POSITIONS OF THE STAR-FORMING REGIONS AND THEY ARE LISTED IN ORDER OF INCREASING LONGITUDES. THE ONLY EXCLUSION ARE THE GALACTIC CENTER SOURCES WHICH ARE COLLECTED TOGETHER AND ARE PLACED IN THE BEGINING OF THE CATALOGUE. IN THE CASE OF A STAR-FORMING REGION HAS WELL-KNOWN SUBSYSTEMS SEPARATED CLEARLY EACH FROM OTHER, THE SUBSYSTEMS ARE SUPPLIED BY THE GALACTIC COORDINATES. TYPE OF INFORMATION IN THE CATALOGUE IS USED TO DISTINGUISH OBSERVING DATA IN THE VARIOUS SPECTRAL RANGES, NAMELY, OPTICAL DATA (O), RADIO DATA (R) AND INFRARED DATA (IR). BESIDES, THE TYPE (M) DESCRIBES THE OBSERVATIONS OF MOLECULAR LINES, INCLUDING MASER SOURCES, IN THE RADIO AND IN THE INFRARED. NAME OF THE SOURCE IS USUALLY TAKEN FROM A CATALOGUE, WHERE THE SOURCE ARE LISTED. IT IS COMPOSED OF A CATALOGUE NAME ABBREVIATION (SEE BELOW), AND SOME IDENTIFYING NUMBER. FREQUENTLY A SOURCE HAS SEVERAL NAMES FROM SOME CATALOGUES CONTAINING IT. THEN ALL THE NAMES ARE LISTED AND SEPARATED BY COMMAS. NATURELLY, IN VARIOUS SPECTRAL RANGES (O,R,IR) A SOURCE HAS VARIOUS NAMES. IN THE CASE OF TYPE "M" INSTEAD OF A SOURCE NAME A MOLECULAR NAME IS GIVEN. SOMETIMES, A MOLECULAR-LINE HAS AN UNUSUAL APPEARANCE. FOR INSTANCE, H2CO-LINES ARE USUALLY SEEN IN ABSORPTION, BUT UNDER THE DEFINITE CONDITIONS IN COMPACT HII REGIONS SOME H2CO-TRANSITIONS ARE SEEN IN EMISSION. THEN THE MOLECULA NAME ARE TRAILED BY A LETTER "E" (H2CO-E, I.E. EMISSION). IN THE OPPOSITE CASES OF OTHER MOLECULA IT WOULD BE A LETTER "A",I.E. ABSORPTION. MASER SOURCES OF OH AND H2O MOLECULA ARE ALWAYS ESCORTED BY A LETTER "E", FOR EXAMPLE, OH-E AND H2O-E. FINE STRUCTURE NAME IS TAKEN FROM ORIGINAL PAPER, AS A RULE. FOR THE TYPE "IR" A POINT OR COMPACT NEAR-INFRARED SOURCE IS FREQUENTLY DENOTED BY "IRS". FOR THE TYPE "M" THE NAME OF SEPARATE CLOUDS ARE SHOWN. THE POSITION WHERE THE MAXIMUM MOLECULAR BRIGHTNESS IS OBSERVED IS MARKED BY "MAX". POSITIONS OF THE CATALOGUE SOURCES ARE GIVEN IN THE EQUATORIAL COORDINATES FOR THE EQUINOX 1950.0. AS A RULE, THEY ARE TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL ARTICLES. BUT IN SOME RARE CASES OF FINE STRUCTURE MAPPING AND IN ABSENCE OF AUTHOR' FINE STRUCTURE POSITIONS IN THE PAPER, THE EQUATORIAL COORDINATES WERE TAKEN FROM THE MAP. WAVELENGTH UNITS ARE MICRONS IN CASES OF OPTICAL AND INFRARED DATA AND GIGAGEHRTZ (GHZ) IN THE CASES OF RADIO AND MOLECULAR DATA. AS A RULE, THE DATA ON THE SOURCE FLUXES ARE ARRANGED IN ORDER OF INCREASING FREQUENCIES IN RADIO AND DECREASING WAVELENGTHS IN INFRARED. FLUXES OR FLUX DENSITIES IN THE CATALOGUE ARE GIVEN IN "JANSKYS" (1 JY = 1EXP-26 W/M2 HZ). SUCH UNITS ARE USED IN THE MAJORITY OF ARTICLES ON RADIO DATA. IN RARE CASES WHEN UNITS ARE DIFFERENT, ORIGINAL DATA WERE TRANSFORMED TO JANSKYS WHEN IT WAS POSSIBLE. THE NEAR-INFRARED BRIGHTNESSES ARE TRADITIONALLY GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE IN "MAGNITUDE".FOR A HOMOGENEITY WE TRANSFORMED THEM TO "JANSKYS" BY THE APPROPRIATE CONVERSION FACTORS, WHICH ARE DEFINED SO THAT THE FLUX DENSITY OF ALPHA LYR (1EXP4 K BLACKBODY) EQUALS TO 0.0 MAGNITUDE AT ALL INFRARED WAVELENGTHS. ANGULAR SIZE OF A SOURCE AS A RULE IS TAKEN FROM THE ORIGINAL WORK AND IS ESTIMATED AS THE HALF-POWER WIDTH (HPW) OF THE SOURCE. IN THE CASE WHEN ONLY A MAP OF THE SOURCE WAS PUBLISHED IN THE ORIGINAL ARTICLE ITS SIZE WAS TAKEN FROM THE MAP. IN THE CASES, WHEN IN THE ORIGINAL PAPER THE SOURCE SIZE IS ABSENT, BUT IT IS NOTED, THAT THE FLUX IS INTEGRATED OVER THE WHOLE SOURCE AREA, IS PLACED IN THE ANGULAR SIZE POSITION. IN A CASE OF THE ANGULAR SIZE DATA ARE FOLLOWED BY AN ASTERISK (*), THE BEAM SIZE OF THE OBSERVATIONS IS PRESENTED. VELOCITY, V(LSR), IS THE CENTRAL VELOCITY OF THE LINE TRANSFORMED TO THE LOCAL STANDART REST (LSR). EACH VELOCITY IS FOLLOWED BY THE LINE-WIDTH BEING SEPARATED FROM THE LATTER BY A SEMICOLON. - IN THE CASE OF TYPE "R" DATA V(LSR) IS A RADIAL VELOCITY OF A HII REGION IN A HYDROGEN RECOMBINATION LINE. SOMETIMES, TWO OR MORE LINES ARE OBSERVED IN THE SOURCE DIRECTION. IT MEANS THAT A SUPERPOSITION OF SOME HII REGIONS IS OBSERVED. - IN THE CASE OF TYPE "M" DATA V(LSR) IS A RADIAL VELOCITY OF A MOLECULAR CLOUD OBSERVED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SOURCE. VERY OFTEN IN THE SOURCE DIRECTION THE MULTIPLE MOLECULAR LINES ARE OBSERVED. THEN IN LIGHT OF SIGHT WE SEE SOME CLOUDS AT DIFFERENT VELOCITIES. WHEN MORE THEN ONE VELOCITY AND ITS WIDTH EXISTS, THE VELOCITIES ARE SEPARATED BY COMMAS. FOR EXAMPLE, V1,V2,V3;DELTA V1,DELTA V2,DELTA V3. ================================================================================ BIBLIOGRAPHY CONTAINS OVER 1000 JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER REFERENCES. IT IS ARRANGED BOTH CHRONOLOGICALLY (3-RD FILE) AND ALPHABETICALLY BY FIRST AUTHOR (4-TH FILE). THE BIBLIOGRAPHY INCLUDES THE AUTHOR'S NAME, JOURNAL NAME OR DOCUMENT NUMBER, VOLUME, PAGE AND FULL TITLE. THE BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE NUMBER IS MADE UP OF THE YEAR AND A SEQUENTUAL NUMBER ASSIGNED TO THE PAPER (FOR EXAMPLE, "7410" IS BROKEN DOWN INTO 74-10, WHERE 74=1974, 10= ARTICLE#10 IN THAT YEAR). ================================================================================ INDEX IS A LIST OF SOURCE POSITIONS, WHICH GIVES THE L,B - COORDINATES OF SOURCES ORDERED BY SOURCE NAMES IN OPTICAL, RADIO AND INFRARED SPECTRAL RANGES. IT IS STORED IN THE 5-TH FILE. BELOW THE ADOPTED CATALOGUE NAME ABBREVIATIONS AND THE CORRESPONDING REFERENCES OF THE SURVEYS, INCLUDED IN THE INDEX, ARE LISTED: OPTICAL SURVEYS: ---------------------------------------------------------------- BBW BRAND J.,BLITZ L.,WOUTERLOOT J.G.A. ASTRON.ASTROPHYS.SUPPL.,1986,65,537. BFS BLITZ L.,FISH M.,STARK A.A. ASTROPHYS.J.SUPPL.,1982,49,183. DG VON DORSCHNER J.,GURTLER J. ASTR.NACHR.,1963,287,257. DWB DICKEL H.R.,WENDKER H.,BIERITZ J.H. ASTRON.ASTROPHYS.,1969,1,270. G GUM S. MEM.R.A.S.,1955,67,21. IC INDEX CATALOGUE. DREYER J.L.E. MEM.R.A.S.,1895,L1. M MESSIER C. CONAISSANCE DES TEMPS,PARIS,1784. NGC NEW GENERAL CATALOGUE. MEM.R.A.S.,LONDON,1888. RCW RODGERS A.W.,CAMPBELL C.T.,WHITEOAK J.B. M.N.R.A.S.,1960,121,103. S SHARPLESS S. ASTROPHYS.J.SUPPL.,1959,4,257. VBH VAN DEN BERGH S.,HERBST W. ASTRON.J.,1975,80,208. VDB VAN DEN BERGH S. ASTRON.J.,1966,71,990. ---------------------------------------------------------------- RADIO SURVEYS: ---------------------------------------------------------------- CTB WILSON R.W.,BOLTON J.G. P.A.S.P.,1960,72,331. DR DOWNES D.,REINHART R. ASTROPHYS.J.,1966,144,937. KES KESTEVEN M.J.L. AUSTRAL.J.PHYS.,1968,21,369. NRAO NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY SURVEYS. ASTROPHYS.J.SUPPL.,1966,13,65. W WESTERHOUT G. B.A.N.,1958,14,215. ---------------------------------------------------------------- INFRARED SURVEYS: ---------------------------------------------------------------- AFGL PRICE S.D. . PRICE S.D.,WALKER R.G. . FIRSSE FAR INFRARED SKY SURVEY EXPERIMENT. . HFE XOFFMAN W.F.,FREDERICK C.L.,EMERY R.J. ASTROPHYS.J.LETTERS,1971,170,L(). LKHA LICK HYDROGEN-ALPHA. 1954-1972. UCL UNIVERSITY COLLEDGE LONDON. ASTROPHYS.J.,1973,184,401. ASTROPHYS.J.,1975,202,400. ---------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ Byte-per-byte Description of file catalog -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COL. DESIG. UNITS REMARKS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1- 6 L ARC DEG F6.2 LONGITUDE OF THE SOURCE 7- 12 B ARC DEG F6.2 LATITUDE OF THE SOURCE 14- 20 L ARC DEG F7.3 LONGITUDE OF A SUBSYSTEM 21- 27 B ARC DEG F7.3 LATITUDE OF A SUBSYSTEM 29- 30 TYPE A3 R :RADIO DATA IR:INFRARED DATA M :MOLECULAR-LINE DATA O :OPTICAL DATA 31- 43 NAME A13 RADIO (R) OR INFRARED (IR) OR OPTICAL (O) SOURCE NAME. IN CASE (M) - THE MOLECULAR NAME. 44- 53 A10 DESIGNATION OF THE FINE STRUCTURE OF THE SOURCE 55- 56 HOURS I2 RA1950 (hours) 58- 59 MINUTES I2 RA1950 (minutes) 61- 66 SECONDS F6.3 RA1950 (seconds) 67 +- A1 DE1950 (sign) 68- 69 ARC DEG I2 DE1950 (d) 71- 72 ARC MIN I2 DE1950 (') 74- 79 ARC SEC F6.3 DE1950 (") 81- 88 GHZ A8 IN CASES "R" AND "M" - OBS. FREQUENCY. MICRONS IN CASES "O" AND "IR" - OBS. WAVELENGTH. 90 <,> A1 UPPER OR LOWER FLUX LIMIT 91- 98 JANSKYS A8 FLUX DENSITY 100 <,> A1 UPPER OR LOWER SIZE LIMIT 101-105 A5 THE HALF-POWER WIDTH (HPW) OF THE SOURCE IN ALPHA, IF TI IS NO UNITS IN 106-107 POSITIONS OR MEAN HPW OF THE SOURCE, IF THERE ARE UNITS IN 106-107 POSITIONS. 106-107 ' ARC MIN A2 UNITS OF ANGULAR " ARC SEC SIZE OF THE SOURCE 108-112 A5 THE HPW OF THE SOURCE IN DELTA OR THE HALF- POWER BEAMWIDTH (HPBW), IF THERE IS AN ASTERISK IN 114 OR 115 POSITION. 113-115 ' ARC MIN A2 UNITS OF THE SIZE OR " ARC SEC THE BEAMSIZE IN CASE * THERE IS AN ASTERISK IN 114 OR 115 POSITION. 117-156 V(LSR) KM/S A40 CENTER VELOCITIES, V KM/S V(LSR), OF THE LINES RELATIVE TO LSR AND THEIR WIDTHS 157-160 A4 REFERENCE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================================ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. I AM GRATEFUL TO G.KONDRATENKO AND I.SAPSAI FOR THEIR HELP IN THE CATALOGUE PREPARATION. APPRECIATION IS ALSO EXPRESSED TO DRS. A.E.PISKUNOV AND B.M.SHUSTOV FOR USEFUL DISCUSSIONS REGARDING THE CATALOGUE FORMAT AND APPLICATION SOFTWARE. ================================================================================ Modifications made at CDS: file catalog: many non-ascii characters were removed or corrected, e.g. Control-K, octal 203 modified into digit 3. Letters in numeric fields were apparently A=1, etc.. I=9 Characters ! instead of 1, etc Other similar errors may still be present. files refs and bib : characters octal 325 into [ and octal 345 into ] ================================================================================ (End) Francois Ochsenbein [CDS] 03-Jul-1992