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Title: | The Coordinated Radio and Infrared Survey for High-Mass Star Formation (The CORNISH Survey). I. Survey Design |
Author: | Hoare, M. G. Purcell, C. R. Churchwell, E. B. Diamond, P. Cotton, W. D. Chandler, C. J. Smethurst, S. Kurtz, S. E. Mundy, L. G. Dougherty, S. M. Fender, R. P. Fuller, G. A. Jackson, J. M. Garrington, S. T. Gledhill, T. R. Goldsmith, P. F. Lumsden, S. L. Martí Ribas, Josep Moore, T. J. T. Paredes i Poy, Josep Maria |
Keywords: | Radioastronomia Raigs infraroigs Astrofísica Evolució de les galàxies Catàlegs d'estels Estructura galàctica Formació d'estels Radio astronomy Infrared radiation Astrophysics Galactic evolution Star catalogs Galactic structure Star formation |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Astronomical Society of the Pacific |
Abstract: | We describe the motivation, design, and implementation of the CORNISH survey, an arcsecondresolution radio continuum survey of the inner galactic plane at 5 GHz using the Very Large Array (VLA). It is a blind survey coordinated with the northern SpitzerGLIMPSE I region covering 10° <l< 65° and jbj < 1° at similar resolution. We discuss in detail the strategy that we employed to control the shape of the synthesised beam across this survey, which covers a wide range of fairly low declinations. Two snapshots separated by 4 h kept the beam elongation to less that 1.5 over 75% of the survey area and less than 2 over 98% of the survey. The prime scientific motivation is to provide an unbiased survey for ultra-compact H II regions to study this key phase in massive star formation. A sensitivity around 2 mJy will allow the automatic distinction between radio-loud and radio-quiet midIR sources found in the Spitzersurveys. This survey has many legacy applications beyond star formation, including evolved stars, active stars and binaries, and extragalactic sources. The CORNISH survey for compact ionized sources complements other Galactic plane surveys that target diffuse and nonthermal sources, as well as atomic and molecular phases to build up a complete picture of the interstellar medium in the Galaxy. |
It is part of: | Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012, vol. 124, p. 939-955 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/41379 |
ISSN: | 0004-6280 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Física Quàntica i Astrofísica) |
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