The Spitzer Space Telescope First-Look Survey: Neutral Hydrogen Emission

Abstract

The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF) extragalactic First-Look Survey covered about 5 square degrees centered on J2000 17:18 +59:30 in order to characterize the infrared sky with high sensitivity. We used the 100-m Green Bank Telescope to image the 21cm Galactic HI emission over a 3x3 degree field covering this position with an effective angular resolution of 9.8 arcmin and a velocity resolution of 0.62 km/s. In the central square degree of the image the average column density is N(HI) = 2.5 x 10^{20} cm-2 with an rms fluctuation of 0.3 x 10^{20}. The Galactic HI in this region has a very interesting structure. There is a high-velocity cloud, several intermediate-velocity clouds (one of which is probably part of the Draco nebula), and narrow-line low velocity filaments. The HI emission shows a strong and detailed correlation with dust. Except for the high-velocity cloud, all features in the HI map have counterparts in an E(B-V) map derived from infrared data. Relatively high E(B-V)/N(HI) ratios in some directions suggest the presence of molecular gas. The best diagnostic of such regions is the peak HI line brightness temperature, not the total N(HI): directions where Tb > 12 K have E(B-V)/N(HI) significantly above the average value. The data corrected for stray radiation have been released via the Web.

Accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal, April 2005. 25 pages includes 11 figures. The data and higher resolution figures are available from http::/www.cv.nrao.edu/fls_gbt

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