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A Close Look at the Galactic Ecosystem: the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Roland Kothes  and
Tom L. Landecker
Roland Kothes
Affiliation:
NRC Canada, HIA, DRAO P.O. Box 248, Penticton, British Columbia, V2A 6J9, Canada email: roland.kothes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca; tom.landecker@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Tom L. Landecker
Affiliation:
NRC Canada, HIA, DRAO P.O. Box 248, Penticton, British Columbia, V2A 6J9, Canada email: roland.kothes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca; tom.landecker@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
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Abstract

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Energy and mass interchanges in the interstellar medium are driven by the life-cycle of stars. They appear in our own Galaxy over a broad range of scales, from point-like injection from stars to global input on the scale of spiral density waves. Understanding this Galactic Ecosystem requires observations of the different phases of the ISM over this large angular dynamic range. The Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) is a project to combine radio, millimeter, and infrared surveys of the Galactic plane, providing arcminute-scale images of all major components of the interstellar medium over a large portion of the Galactic disk.

Keywords

atomic datamagnetic fieldspolarizationsurveysISM generalGalaxy: structure
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 804
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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