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| author | Yang, Ji Yan, Qing-Zeng Su, Yang Zhang, Shaobo Zhou, Xin Sun, Yan Ao, Yiping Chen, Xuepeng Chen, Zhiwei Du, Fujun Fang, Min Gong, Yan Jiang, Zhibo Jin, Shengyu Ju, Binggang Li, Chong Li, Yingjie Liu, Yi Lu, Dengrong Luo, Chunsheng Ma, Yuehui Mao, Ruiqing Sun, Jixian Wang, Chen Wang, Hongchi Wang, Min Wang, Min Wang, Xindong Xu, Wenting Xu, Ye Yan, Kun Yan, Ping Yuan, Lixia Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Yongxing |
| author_facet | Yang, Ji Yan, Qing-Zeng Su, Yang Zhang, Shaobo Zhou, Xin Sun, Yan Ao, Yiping Chen, Xuepeng Chen, Zhiwei Du, Fujun Fang, Min Gong, Yan Jiang, Zhibo Jin, Shengyu Ju, Binggang Li, Chong Li, Yingjie Liu, Yi Lu, Dengrong Luo, Chunsheng Ma, Yuehui Mao, Ruiqing Sun, Jixian Wang, Chen Wang, Hongchi Wang, Min Wang, Min Wang, Xindong Xu, Wenting Xu, Ye Yan, Kun Yan, Ping Yuan, Lixia Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Yongxing |
| contents | We present the first data release (DR1) of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, a mapping in the J=(1-0) transition lines of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O toward the northern Galactic plane during 2011-2022. The MWISP survey was conducted using the PMO 13.7 m telescope at a spatial resolution of approximately 50" and a velocity resolution of 0.16 km/s at 115 GHz. DR1 fully covered 2310 square degrees within the Galactic longitude (l) and latitude (b) range of 9.75 deg =< l =< 229.75 deg and |b| =< 5.25 deg. The surveyed area was divided into cell units of 30'x30' for practical purposes and On-The-Fly (OTF) mapping was performed toward each target cell unit. The data were regridded into a regular 3D datacube in l-b-V_LSR with a pixel size of 30" in l-b axes and 0.16 km/s in theV_LSR axis. The median rms noise is 0.47 K, 0.25 K, and 0.25 K for 12CO, 13CO, and C18O, respectively. The equivalent 3 sigma sensitivity in 12CO luminosity is approximately 0.23 K km/s, making MWISP the most sensitive survey of its kind. In this paper, we describe the survey data, including the calibration, data cleaning, data mosaic processes, and the data products. The final mosaicked data cubes contain about 3.33x10^7 spectra (pixels) for each CO isotopologue line. Color composite images, made from the intensities of the isotopologue lines, and some concise descriptions are provided. We constructed a molecular cloud catalog based on the mosaicked 12CO data cube using the clustering algorithm DBSCAN, detecting 103,517 molecular clouds, 10,790 of which exhibit 13CO emission and 304 of which show C18O emission. Based on the histogram of voxel brightness temperature, we estimated a total 12CO flux of 7.69+/-0.38x10^7 K km/s arcmin^2, 82% of which is captured by the DBSCAN algorithm. The data, together with the cloud sample, provide unique information on molecular gas in the northern Milky Way. |
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| spellingShingle | The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey: Data Release 1 Yang, Ji Yan, Qing-Zeng Su, Yang Zhang, Shaobo Zhou, Xin Sun, Yan Ao, Yiping Chen, Xuepeng Chen, Zhiwei Du, Fujun Fang, Min Gong, Yan Jiang, Zhibo Jin, Shengyu Ju, Binggang Li, Chong Li, Yingjie Liu, Yi Lu, Dengrong Luo, Chunsheng Ma, Yuehui Mao, Ruiqing Sun, Jixian Wang, Chen Wang, Hongchi Wang, Min Wang, Min Wang, Xindong Xu, Wenting Xu, Ye Yan, Kun Yan, Ping Yuan, Lixia Zhang, Miaomiao Zhang, Yongxing Astrophysics of Galaxies We present the first data release (DR1) of the Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting (MWISP) survey, a mapping in the J=(1-0) transition lines of 12CO, 13CO, and C18O toward the northern Galactic plane during 2011-2022. The MWISP survey was conducted using the PMO 13.7 m telescope at a spatial resolution of approximately 50" and a velocity resolution of 0.16 km/s at 115 GHz. DR1 fully covered 2310 square degrees within the Galactic longitude (l) and latitude (b) range of 9.75 deg =< l =< 229.75 deg and |b| =< 5.25 deg. The surveyed area was divided into cell units of 30'x30' for practical purposes and On-The-Fly (OTF) mapping was performed toward each target cell unit. The data were regridded into a regular 3D datacube in l-b-V_LSR with a pixel size of 30" in l-b axes and 0.16 km/s in theV_LSR axis. The median rms noise is 0.47 K, 0.25 K, and 0.25 K for 12CO, 13CO, and C18O, respectively. The equivalent 3 sigma sensitivity in 12CO luminosity is approximately 0.23 K km/s, making MWISP the most sensitive survey of its kind. In this paper, we describe the survey data, including the calibration, data cleaning, data mosaic processes, and the data products. The final mosaicked data cubes contain about 3.33x10^7 spectra (pixels) for each CO isotopologue line. Color composite images, made from the intensities of the isotopologue lines, and some concise descriptions are provided. We constructed a molecular cloud catalog based on the mosaicked 12CO data cube using the clustering algorithm DBSCAN, detecting 103,517 molecular clouds, 10,790 of which exhibit 13CO emission and 304 of which show C18O emission. Based on the histogram of voxel brightness temperature, we estimated a total 12CO flux of 7.69+/-0.38x10^7 K km/s arcmin^2, 82% of which is captured by the DBSCAN algorithm. The data, together with the cloud sample, provide unique information on molecular gas in the northern Milky Way. |
| title | The Milky Way Imaging Scroll Painting Survey: Data Release 1 |
| topic | Astrophysics of Galaxies |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08260 |