The Distances of SNR W41 and overlapping HII regions

Abstract

New HI images from the VLA Galactic Plane Survey show prominent absorption features associated with the supernovae remnant G23.3-0.3 (SNR W41). We highlight the HI absorption spectra and the ${}^{13}$CO emission spectra of eight small regions on the face of W41, including four HII regions, three non-thermal emission regions and one unclassified region. The maximum velocity of absorption for W41 is 78$\pm$2 km/s and the CO cloud at radial velocity 95$\pm$5 km/s is behind W41. Because an extended TeV source, a diffuse X-ray enhancement and a large molecular cloud at radial velocity 77$\pm$5 km/s are also projected at the center of W41, these yield the kinematic distance of 3.9 to 4.5 kpc for W41. For HII regions, our analyses reveal that both G23.42-0.21 and G23.07+0.25 are at the far kinematic distances ($\sim$9.9 kpc and $\sim$ 10.6 kpc respectively) of their recombination-line velocities (103$\pm$0.5 km/s and 89.6$\pm$2.1 km/s respectively), G23.07-0.37 is at the near kinematic distance (4.4$\pm$0.3 kpc) of its recombination-line velocity (82.7$\pm$2.0 km/s), and G23.27-0.27 is probably at the near kinematic distance (4.1$\pm$0.3 kpc) of its recombination-line velocity (76.1$\pm$0.6 km/s).

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References in corpus (4)

• The Boston University-Five College Radio Astronomy Observatory Galactic Ring Survey
• The VLA Galactic Plane Survey
• VLA and XMM-Newton observations of the SNR W41/TeV Gamma-ray source HESS J1834-087
• Radio and X-ray images of SNR G18.8+0.3 interacting with molecular clouds

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