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| A Pilot Radio Survey of the Galactic Bulge at 1-2GHz |
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The Galactic Bulge is a very dense region of the galaxy, and has the observational advantage over the Galactic Center by being out of the plane of the galaxy, thus avoiding a portion of the issues that arise from the presence of dust and gas. This makes the Galactic Bulge an efficient region of the sky to observe and see a high number of many different classes of objects over a relatively small area. Sensitive radio observations of the Bulge region are lacking, though recent all-sky radio surveys have greatly contributed to observations over the area. A targeted survey of this region in the radio should dredge up thousands of radio sources, and, combined with other wavelength data for classification, allow for the various populations of sources in this region to be revealed and compared to theory. A pilot radio survey with the Very Large Array has been observed over part of the Galactic Bulge region as a complement to already-completed optical and X-ray wavelengths as part of the Galactic Bulge Survey project. There are ~1200 unique radio sources in the data. Most sources are point sources and the analysis of the data is ongoing, but so far there are over 100 morphological active galactic nuclei, 33 known planetary nebulae, and about 100 pulsars. It is clear that sensitive radio observations of this region have great potential to reveal the diverse populations present, particularly those where radio emission can be a defining feature for classification. |
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PATTIE, Eli (Texas Tech University) |
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PATTIE, Eli |
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