The JCMT Plane Survey: First complete data release - emission maps and compact source catalogue

Eden, D. J.; Moore, T. J. T.; Plume, R.; Urquhart, J. S.; Thompson, M. A.; Parsons, H.; Dempsey, J. T.; Rigby, A. J.; Morgan, L. K.; Thomas, H. S.; Berry, D.; Buckle, J.; Brunt, C. M.; Butner, H. M.; Carretero, D.; Chrysostomou, A.; Currie, M. J.; deVilliers, H. M.; Fich, M.; Gibb, A. G.; Graves, S.; Hoare, M. G.; Jenness, T.; Manser, G.; Mottram, J. C.; Natario, C.; Olguin, F.; Peretto, N.; Pestalozzi, M.; Polychroni, D.; Redman, R. O.; Salji, C.; Summers, L. J.; Tahani, K.; Traficante, A.; diFrancesco, J.; Evans, A.; Fuller, G. A.; Johnstone, D.; Joncas, G.; Longmore, S. N.; Martin, P. G.; Richer, J. S.; Weferling, B.; White, G. J. and Zhu, M. (2017). The JCMT Plane Survey: First complete data release - emission maps and compact source catalogue. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 469(2) pp. 2163–2183.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx874

Abstract

We present the first data release of the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Plane Survey (JPS), the JPS Public Release 1 (JPSPR1). JPS is an 850-µm continuum survey of six fields in the northern inner Galactic Plane in a longitude range of ℓ = 7°–63°, made with the Sub-millimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2). This first data release consists of emission maps of the six JPS regions with an average pixel-to-pixel noise of 7.19 mJy beam⁻¹, when smoothed over the beam, and a compact-source catalogue containing 7,813 sources. The 95 per cent completeness limits of the catalogue are estimated at 0.04 Jy beam⁻¹ and 0.3 Jy for the peak and integrated flux densities, respectively. The emission contained in the compact-source catalogue is 42 ± 5 per cent of the total and, apart from the large-scale (greater than 8 arcmin) emission, there is excellent correspondence with features in the 500-µm Herschel maps. We find that, with two-dimensional matching, 98 ± 2 per cent of sources within the fields centred at ℓ = 20°, 30°, 40° and 50° are associated with molecular clouds, with 91 ± 3 per cent of the ℓ = 30° and 40° sources associated with dense molecular clumps. Matching the JPS catalogue to Herschel 70-µm sources, we find that 38 ± 1 per cent of sources show evidence of ongoing star formation. The images and catalogue will be a valuable resource for studies of star formation in the Galaxy and the role of environment and spiral arms in the star formation process.

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