Images from the ATNF Southern Galactic Plane Survey

See our new Web page at S.G.P.S. !

A Project to study the radio continuum and HI line emission from the Southern Galactic Plane (longitude 270 to 357, latitude -1 to +1 degree). This work is a collaboration among the University of Minnesota ( John Dickey and Naomi McClure-Griffiths ), Sydney University ( Anne Green ), Harvard University ( Bryan Gaensler ), Australia Telescope National Facility ( Mark Wieringa and Raymond Haynes ).

Some recent results (January 1999) :

Linear Polarization in the Test Region

Here is the most recent map (October 15, 1998)

Read the Scientific Justification as a proposal here .

The image below is a continuum map of the test region, with coordinates indicated. The grey scale maximum is 1 Jy/beam, minimum -.15.

The spectra below are taken toward three continuum peaks as indicated here.

Clicking this image should transfer a movie of 120 velocity channel-maps of the HI emission. After the images are transferred, an mpeg viewer should open on your computer, which you can use to run the movie, or to step through the frames. The channel widths are 2 km/s. Frame 1 is centered at -140 km/s, frame 71 at 0 km/s, and frame 120 at +98 km/s (LSR).

If you want to read the proposal , here is a postscript version.

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