The <Emphasis Type="Italic">z</Emphasis> distribution of hydrogen clouds and masers with kinematic distances |
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| Authors: | V V Bobylev A T Bajkova |
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| Institution: | 1.Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory,Russian Academy of Sciences,St. Petersburg,Russia |
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| Abstract: | Data on HII regions, molecular clouds, and methanol masers have been used to estimate the Sun’s distance from the symmetry plane z ⊙ and the vertical disk scale height h. Kinematic distance estimates are available for all objects in these samples. The Local-arm (Orion-arm) objects are shown to affect noticeably the pattern of the z distribution. The deviations from the distribution symmetry are particularly pronounced for the sample of masers with measured trigonometric parallaxes, where the fraction of Local-arm masers is large. The situation with the sample of HII regions in the solar neighborhood is similar. We have concluded that it is better to exclude the Local arm from consideration. Based on the model of a self-gravitating isothermal disk, we have obtained the following estimates from objects located in the inner region of the Galaxy (R ≤ R 0): z ⊙ = ?5.7 ± 0.5 pc and h 2 = 24.1 ± 0.9 pc from the sample of 639 methanol masers, z ⊙ = ?7.6±0.4 pc and h 2 = 28.6±0.5 pc from 878HII regions, z ⊙ = ?10.1 ± 0.5 pc and h 2 = 28.2 ± 0.6 pc from 538 giant molecular clouds. |
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