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    • A survey of recombination line emission from the galactic plane at 325 MHz

      K. R. Anantharamaiah

      Volume 6 Issue 4 December 1985 pp 177-201

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    • Keywords

       

      Galaxy, radio recombination lines; radio observations, low-frequency; stimulated emission

    • Abstract

       

      A survey of the H 272 α recombination line at 325 MHz has been made towards 53 directions in the galactic plane using the Ooty Radio Telescope (ORT). 34 of these directions correspond to well-known Hn regions, 12 to SNRs and 6 to ‘blank’ areas selected so that the 5 GHz continuum is a minimum over the telescope beam of 2ℴ x 6 arcmin. Observing procedure and spectra of 47 sources towards which lines are detected are presented. Hydrogen recombination lines have been detected towards all the observed directions havingl <40ℴ. Carbon recombination lines are identified in 12 of the directions. The hydrogen line intensities are found to correlate well with the total continuum intensity (which includes the nonthermal galactic background) indicating that most of the lines arise due to stimulated emission by the background radiation. A preliminary discussion on the nature of the line-emitting regions is also presented.

    • Author Affiliations

       

      K. R. Anantharamaiah1

      1. Raman Research Institute, Bangalore - 560080

    • Dates

       
      Published
      December 1985
      Manuscript received
      21 June 1985
      Accepted
      9 August 1985

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