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most citedA Catalog of Extended Green Objects (EGOs) in the GLIMPSE Survey: A new sample of massive young stellar object outflow candidates

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astro-ph2008★ 472 cited

A Catalog of Extended Green Objects (EGOs) in the GLIMPSE Survey: A new sample of massive young stellar object outflow candidates

C. J. Cyganowski, B. A. Whitney, E. Holden +12

Using images from the Spitzer GLIMPSE Legacy survey, we have identified more than 300 extended 4.5 micron sources (abbreviated EGO, Extended Green Object, for the common coding of…

astro-ph2008★ 74 cited

Interstellar Weather Vanes: GLIMPSE Mid-Infrared Stellar-Wind Bowshocks in M17 and RCW49

Matthew S. Povich, Robert A. Benjamin, Barbara A. Whitney +4

We report the discovery of six infrared stellar-wind bowshocks in the Galactic massive star formation regions M17 and RCW49 from Spitzer GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane…

astro-ph2008★ 129 cited

The Turbulent Warm Ionized Medium: Emission Measure Distribution and MHD Simulations

Alex S. Hill, Robert A. Benjamin, Grzegorz Kowal +3

We present an analysis of the distribution of H-alpha emission measures for the warm ionized medium (WIM) of the Galaxy using data from the Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) Northern…

astro-ph2008★ 109 cited

Smith's Cloud: A High-velocity Cloud Colliding with the Milky Way

Felix J. Lockman, Robert A. Benjamin, A. J. Heroux +1

New 21cm HI observations made with the Green Bank Telescope show that the high-velocity cloud known as Smith's Cloud has a striking cometary appearance and many indications of inte…

astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

Infrared Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Ionized Halo of NGC 891

Richard J. Rand, Kenneth Wood, Robert A. Benjamin

We present infrared spectroscopy from the Spitzer Space Telescope at one disk position and two positions at a height of 1 kpc from the disk in the edge-on spiral NGC 891, with the…

astro-ph2008★ 25 cited

Vertically Extended Neutral Gas in the Massive Edge-on Spiral NGC 5746

Richard J. Rand, Robert A. Benjamin

We present Very Large Array 21-cm observations of the massive edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 5746. This galaxy has recently been reported to have a luminous X-ray halo, which has been t…