2008/10/02 by C. J. Cyganowski, B. A. Whitney, E. Holden +20 · 7 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Galactic plane #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Infrared #Maser #Optics #Physics #Point source #Protostar #Star formation #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #Young stellar object #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2391
47 pages, 13 figures. AJ, in press. Version with full-resolution figures and online figure sets will be available at http://www.astro.wisc.edu/glimpse/EGO_catalog until publication in AJ
arxiv created 2008/10/02 · openalex publication_date 2008/11/13 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
ABSTRACT Using images from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE), we have identified more than 300 extended 4.5 μm sources (Extended Green Objects (EGOs), for the common coding of the [4.5] band as green in three-color composite InfraRed Array Camera images). We present a catalog of these EGOs, including integrated flux density measurements at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, and 24 μm from GLIMPSE and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic Plane Survey. The average angular separation between a source in our sample and the nearest IRAS point source is greater than 1′. The majority of EGOs are associated with infrared dark clouds (IRDCs), and where high-resolution 6.7 GHz CH 3 OH maser surveys overlap the GLIMPSE coverage, EGOs and 6.7 GHz CH 3 OH masers are strongly correlated. Extended 4.5 μm emission is thought to trace shocked molecular gas in protostellar outflows; the association of EGOs with IRDCs and 6.7 GHz CH 3 OH masers suggests that the extended 4.5 μm emission may pinpoint outflows specifically from massive protostars. The mid-IR colors of EGOs lie in regions of color–color space occupied by young protostars still embedded in infalling envelopes.