言語種別 英語 発行・発表の年月 2020/08 形態種別 学術雑誌 査読 査読あり 標題 Where is the western part of the Galactic Center Lobe located really?   Where is the western part of the Galactic Center Lobe located really? 執筆形態 共著 掲載誌名 Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 掲載区分 国外 巻・号・頁 72(5),pp.L10-L05 担当範囲 議論 著者・共著者 Tsuboi, Masato; Tsutsumi, Takahiro; Kitamura, Yoshimi; Miyawaki, Ryosuke; Miyazaki, Atsushi; Miyoshi, Makoto   Tsuboi, Masato; Tsutsumi, Takahiro; Kitamura, Yoshimi; Miyawaki, Ryosuke; Miyazaki, Atsushi; Miyoshi, Makoto 概要 The Galactic Center Lobe (GCL) is a peculiar object widely protruding from the Galactic plane toward the positive Galactic latitude, which had been found toward the Galactic Center (GC) in the early days of the radio observation. We found that the distribution of the visual extinction larger than 4 mag clearly corresponds to the silhouette of the WPGCL. The WPGCL must be located at most within a few kpc from us and not in the GC region. This would be a giant H II region in the Galactic disk.