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The Galactic Centre at 408 MHz

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

A. G. Little
A. G. Little*
Affiliation:
University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Abstract

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The Molonglo radio telescope has been used to map the galactic centre region with a resolution of 2.9′. Although similar to microwave maps of comparable resolution, there are differences. In particular, the source G1.05-0.1 is not visible at microwaves, and the source G0.1-0.0 is not visible at 408 MHz. The flux values of all the other sources around Sgr A confirm that they are thermal and that the sources G0.7−0.0, G0.5 − 0.0, and G0.2−0.0 are optically thick.

A more extensive galactic background survey with the cross shows the existence of a peak in the background emission with a brightness temperature of about 500 K at the galactic centre. This is probably the nonthermal source observed at 85 MHz. The higher-resolution observations of this map show the narrower, hotter region which appears on the microwave map and which surrounds Sgr A. This has a brightness temperature of 2100 K, which cannot be accounted for by a simple thermal spectrum extrapolated from microwaves.

Type
Part 5: The Galactic Center
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 60: Galactic Radio Astronomy , 1974 , pp. 491 - 497
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1974 

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