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Aquila is a stellar constellation. Its name is Latin for 'eagle' and it is commonly represented as such. In mythology, Aquila was owned by the Roman god Jupiter and performed many tasks for him.
Aquila lies just a few degrees North of the celestial equator. The alpha star, Altair, is a vertex of the Summer Triangle asterism. The constellation is best seen in the summer as it is located along the Milky Way. Because of this location along the line of our galaxy, many clusters and nebulae are found within its borders, but they are dim and there are few galaxies.

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Blobs Aquila Highlights

Google earth file: Aquila.kmz (6kb, kmz)



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Title: The BLAST View of the Star Forming Region in Aquila (ell=45deg,b=0deg)
Authors: Alana Rivera-Ingraham, Peter A. R. Ade, James J. Bock, Edward L. Chapin, Mark J. Devlin, Simon R. Dicker, Matthew Griffin, Joshua O. Gundersen, Mark Halpern, Peter C. Hargrave, David H. Hughes, Jeff Klein, Gaelen Marsden, Peter G. Martin, Philip Mauskopf, Calvin B. Netterfield, Luca Olmi, Guillaume Patanchon, Marie Rex, Arabindo Roy, Douglas Scott, Christopher Semisch, Matthew D. P. Truch, Carole Tucker, Gregory S. Tucker, Marco P. Viero, Donald V. Wiebe
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We have carried out the first general submillimetre analysis of the field towards GRSMC 45.46+0.05, a massive star forming region in Aquila. The deconvolved 6°² (3° X 2°) maps provided by BLAST in 2005 at 250, 350, and 500 micron were used to perform a preliminary characterisation of the clump population previously investigated in the infrared, radio, and molecular maps. Interferometric CORNISH data at 4.8 GHz have also been used to characterise the Ultracompact HII regions (UCHIIRs) within the main clumps. By means of the BLAST maps we have produced an initial census of the submillimetre structures that will be observed by Herschel, several of which are known Infrared Dark Clouds (IRDCs). Our spectral energy distributions of the main clumps in the field, located at ~7 kpc, reveal an active population with temperatures of T~35-40 K and masses of ~10³ Msun for a dust emissivity index beta=1.5. The clump evolutionary stages range from evolved sources, with extended HII regions and prominent IR stellar population, to massive young stellar objects, prior to the formation of an UCHIIR.The CORNISH data have revealed the details of the stellar content and structure of the UCHIIRs. In most cases, the ionising stars corresponding to the brightest radio detections are capable of accounting for the clump bolometric luminosity, in most cases powered by embedded OB stellar clusters.

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Galactic Plane - Aquila

This image combines data from PACS and SPIRE to form a three-colour image.  PACS images at 70 microns (blue), 160microns (green) are combined with the SPIRE 250 microns channel (red).  Cooler material is shown in red, while warmer material is blue - but all just 10-50 degreen above absolute zero.  This image is taken in constellation of Aquila and shows the entire assembly line of newborn stars. The diffuse glow reveals the widespread cold reservoir of raw material which our Galaxy has in stock for the production of new stars.
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Date: 5:15 UT, 9th March 2008.
Exposure: 10 sec

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