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The MUSTANG-2 Galactic Plane Survey (MGPS90) pilot
Adam Ginsburg, L. D. Anderson, Simon Dicker, Charles Romero, Brian Svoboda, Mark Devlin, Roberto Galván-Madrid, Remy Indebetouw, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Brian Mason, Tony Mroczkowski, W. P. Armentrout, John Bally, Crystal Brogan, Natalie Butterfield, Todd R. Hunter, Erik D. Reese, Erik Rosolowsky, Craig Sarazin, Yancy Shirley, Jonathan Sievers, Sara Stanchfield
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We report the results of a pilot program for a Green Bank Telescope (GBT) MUSTANG Galactic Plane survey at 3 mm (90 GHz), MGPS90. The survey achieves a typical 1σ depth of 1-2 mJy beam⁻¹ with a 9" beam. We describe the survey parameters, quality assessment process, cataloging, and comparison with other data sets. We have identified 709 sources over seven observed fields selecting some of the most prominent millimeter-bright regions between 0< ℓ< 50 (total area ≈7.5 ²). The majority of these sources have counterparts at other wavelengths. By applying flux selection criteria to these sources, we successfully recovered several known hypercompact HII (HCHII) regions, but did not confirm any new ones. We identify 126 sources that have mm-wavelength counterparts but do not have cm-wavelength counterparts and are therefore candidate HCHII regions; of these, 10 are morphologically compact and are strong candidates for new HCHII regions. Given the limited number of candidates in the extended area in this survey compared to the relatively large numbers seen in protoclusters W51 and W49, it appears that most HCHII regions exist within dense protoclusters. Comparing the counts of HCHII to ultracompact HII (UCHII) regions, we infer the HCHII region lifetime is 16-46% that of the UCHII region lifetime. We additionally separated the 3 mm emission into dust and free-free emission by comparing with archival 870 μm and 20 cm data. In the selected pilot fields, most (≳80%) of the 3 mm emission comes from plasma, either through free-free or synchrotron emission.
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