A 20 Centimeter Survey of the Galactic Center Region. I. Detection of Numerous Linear Filaments

By F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. Hewitt, W. Cotton. 2004

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This is the first in a series of papers presenting a sensitive 20 cm VLA continuum survey of the Galactic center region using new and archival data based on multiconfiguration observations taken with relatively uniform uv coverage. The high dynamic range images cover the regions within -2° < l < 5° and -40′ < b < 40′ with a spatial resolution of ≈30'' and 10''. The wide field imaging technique is used to construct a low-resolution mosaic of 40 overlapping pointings. The mosaic image includes the Effelsburg observations filling the low spatial frequency uv data. We also present high-resolution images of 23 overlapping fields using DnC and CnB array configurations. These high-resolution images are sensitive to both compact and extended continuum features with a wide range of angular scales with rms noise of 0.2 mJy beam-1 in the outer parts of the Galactic center region. The survey has resulted in a catalog of 345 discrete sources as well as 140 images revealing structural details of H II regions, supernova remnants, pulsar wind nebulae, and more than 80 linear filaments distributed toward the complex region of the Galactic center. These observations show the evidence for an order-of-magnitude increase in the number of faint linear filaments with typical lengths of a few arcminutes. Many of the filaments show morphological characteristics similar to the Galactic center nonthermal radio filaments (NRFs). The linear filaments are not isolated but are generally clustered in star-forming regions where prominent NRFs had been detected previously. The extensions of many of these linear filaments appear to terminate at either a compact source or a resolved shell-like thermal source. A relationship between the filaments, the compact and extended thermal sources, as well as a lack of preferred orientation for many RFs should constrain models that are proposed to explain the origin of nonthermal radio filaments in the Galactic center.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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GIANT GAMMA-RAY BUBBLES FROM FERMI-LAT: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEUS ACTIVITY OR BIPOLAR GALACTIC WIND? (2010, background): “The unique characteristics of stellar clusters towards the GC have been used to explain the origin of the magnetized nonthermal radio filaments, threads, and streaks (LaRosa et al. 2004; Yusef-Zadeh et al. 2004).”
STAR FORMATION IN THE CENTRAL 400 PC OF THE MILKY WAY: EVIDENCE FOR A POPULATION OF MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS (2009, methodology): “The detection of point sources at 90 and 20cm (Nord et al. 2004; Yusef-Zadeh et al. 2004; Law et al. 2008) does suffer from the artifacts introduced by the lack of uv coverage.”