II/392 The WISE catalog of Galactic H II regions. v3.0 (Anderson+, 2026)
The WISE catalog of Galactic H II regions v3.0.
Anderson L.D., Bania T.M., Balser D.S., Cunningham V., Wenger T.V.,
Johnstone B.M. and Armentrout W.P.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 212, 1 (2014)>
=2026yCat.2392....0A 2026yCat.2392....0A
=2014ApJS..212....1A 2014ApJS..212....1A
ADC_Keywords: H II regions ; Infrared sources
Keywords: Galaxy: structure; H II regions; infrared: ISM; ISM: bubbles;
stars: formation
Abstract:
The WISE Catalog of Galactic HII Regions is a catalog of HII regions
and candidates, compiled from Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer
(WISE) 12um and 22um data. It was created by Loren Anderson, Thomas
Bania, Dana Balser, Virginia Cunningham, Trey Wenger, Brittany
Johnstone, and William Armentrout, with help from numerous students at
West Virginia University.
Description:
Since Version 1.0 published in Anderson+ (2014, J/ApJS/212/1), updates
have been released on the website: http://astro.phys.wvu.edu/wise/
This is the Version 3.0 - July 2026
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
catv3.dat 821 8589 The WISE catalog of Galactic H II regions v3.0
(website columns)
refs.dat 76 95 References; table added by CDS
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See also:
II/328 : AllWISE Data Release (Cutri+ 2013)
II/311 : WISE All-Sky Data Release (Cutri+ 2012)
II/293 : GLIMPSE Source Catalog (I + II + 3D) (IPAC 2008)
VIII/58 : A Survey of Radio H II Regions in the Northern Sky (Lockman+ 1989)
J/A+A/689/A81 : GLOSTAR GPS. X. Galactic HII region catalog (Khan+, 2024)
J/ApJ/959/110 : GBT Diffuse Ionized Gas Survey RRL data (Linville+, 2023)
J/ApJS/254/36 : Southern HII Region Discovery Survey. II. (Wenger+, 2021)
J/ApJ/887/114 : VLA ∼8-10GHz obs. of WISE Gal. HII regions (Wenger+, 2019)
J/MNRAS/490/5063 : Extended sources in SCORPIO at 2.1GHz (Ingallinera+, 2019)
J/ApJ/852/2 : CO emission from 78 WISE HII region in OSC (Wenger+, 2018)
J/ApJ/856/52 : Kinematic distances of star-forming regions (Wenger+, 2018)
J/MNRAS/471/100 : Hi-GAL compact source catalog. -71.0<l<67.0 (Elia+, 2017)
J/ApJ/810/42 : Hydrogen RRL parameters of H II regions (Anderson+, 2015)
J/ApJS/221/26 : Radio obs. of Galactic WISE HII regions (Anderson+, 2015)
J/ApJ/783/130 : Parallaxes of high mass star forming regions (Reid+, 2014)
J/ApJS/212/1 : The WISE catalog of Galactic HII regions (Anderson+, 2014)
J/ApJS/208/11 : Red MSX Source Survey: massive protostars (Lumsden+, 2013)
J/A+A/544/A146 : ATLASGAL cold high-mass clumps with NH3 (Wienen+, 2012)
J/ApJ/754/62 : HRDS III. HII region kinematic distances (Anderson+, 2012)
J/ApJ/753/62 : Kinematic distance ambiguity in HII regions (Jones+, 2012)
J/MNRAS/426/1972 : H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey. II (Purcell+, 2012)
J/ApJ/741/110 : The BGPS. VII. Massive star-forming regions (Dunham+, 2011)
J/MNRAS/418/1689 : Red MSX water maser and ammonia emissions (Urquhart+, 2011)
J/MNRAS/411/705 : Spectrophotometric distances of HII regions (Moises+, 2011)
J/MNRAS/410/1237 : Red MSX survey (RMS) massive young stars (Urquhart+, 2011)
J/ApJS/197/25 : MALT90 pilot survey (Foster+, 2011)
J/ApJS/195/14 : The BGPS. V. (Schlingman+, 2011)
J/ApJS/194/32 : HII Region Discovery Survey (HRDS). II. (Anderson+, 2011)
J/AJ/142/94 : Red MSX sources in BGPS (Schenck+, 2011)
J/A+A/532/A127 : Inner Galaxy HII regions (Du+, 2011)
J/ApJ/720/1055 : VBLA observations of W51 Main/South (Sato+, 2010)
J/ApJ/699/1153 : Kinematic dist. to GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2009)
J/ApJ/690/706 : Distances of Galactic HII regions (Anderson+, 2009)
J/ApJS/181/255 : CO in Galactic HII regions (Anderson+, 2009)
J/A+A/474/891 : 13CO obs. of YSOs in South Gal. plane (Urquhart+, 2007)
J/AJ/131/2525 : MAGPIS 20cm survey (Helfand+, 2006)
J/ApJS/154/553 : Inner galaxy massive star formation regions (Sewilo+, 2004)
J/ApJ/587/714 : H2CO and Hα observations of UC HII (Watson+, 2003)
J/ApJ/582/756 : Velocities of HII regions (Kolpak+, 2003)
J/ApJS/138/63 : H2CO and Hα observations of UC HII (Araya+, 2002)
J/A+AS/115/81 : A CS(2-1) survey of UC HII regions (Bronfman+, 1996)
J/A+AS/80/149 : IRAS Sources behind the Solar circle (Wouterloot+ 1989)
J/A+A/171/261 : RRL of Southern HII Regions (Caswell+ 1987)
http://astro.phys.wvu.edu/wise/ : WISE catalog of Galactic HII regions online
http://www.ast.leeds.ac.uk/RMS/ : The Red MSX source survey page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: catv3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 15 A15 --- WISE WISE name (GLLL.lll+BB.bbb)
17 A1 --- Cl [CGKQ] Classification of HII region (1)
19- 30 F12.8 deg GLON [0.003/360] Galactic longitude
32- 43 F12.8 deg GLAT [-19.6/23] Galactic latitude
45- 65 F21.17 deg RAdeg [0.43/360] Right ascension (J2000)
67- 89 F23.18 deg DEdeg [-65.6/68] Declination (J2000)
91- 103 F13.7 arcsec Rad [0.3/18667] Radius
105- 151 A47 --- HIIName HII region identifier
153- 183 A31 --- Group Group membership identifier
185- 208 A24 km/s VLSR VLSR(s)
210- 243 A34 --- r_VLSR VLSRs references
245 A1 --- KDAR [FNT] Kinematic Distance Ambiguity Resolution
(Far, Near or Tangent)
247- 267 F21.17 kpc Dist [0.01/20.7]? Distance from the Sun
269- 289 F21.19 kpc e_Dist [0.003/7.1]? Dist uncertainty
291- 309 A19 --- n_Dist Method used to derive distance (DMethod) (2)
311- 393 A83 --- r_Dist Distance reference
395- 416 F22.18 kpc RGal [0.026/36.5]? Distance from Galactic center
418- 440 E23.20 pc Z [-0.45/0.9]? Height above the plane
(z=bsin(d☉), where b is the
Galactic latitude)
442- 458 F17.12 Jy FGLIMPSE [-79.4/2598.2]? GLIMPSE Spitzer/IRAC 8um flux
460- 475 F16.11 Jy FW3 [-77.4/9575.3]? WISE W3 (12um) flux
477- 491 F15.10 Jy FMIPS [-38.7/6367]? MIPSGAL Spitzer/MIPS 24um flux
493- 509 F17.11 Jy FW4 [-158/33317.3]? WISE W4 (22um) flux
511- 526 F16.9 Jy FHiGal70 [-14818/323676]? HiGal Herschel/PACS 70um
flux
528- 543 F16.9 Jy FHiGal160 [-16243/294416]? HiGal Herschel/PACS 160um
flux
545- 561 F17.13 Jy FVGPS [-0.003/211.4]? 21cm VLA Galactic Plane
Survey (VGPS) flux
563- 579 F17.13 Jy Fmagpis [0.0006/112.5]? MAGPIS VLA 20cm flux
581- 821 A241 --- AllNames All names
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Note (1): Galactic HII region classification as follows:
K = Known (2512 occurrences)
G = Group (816 occurrences)
C = Candidate (3185 occurrences)
Q = radio Quiet (2076 occurrences)
Note (2): Methods to derive the distance are:
Parallax = for maser parallax distances (153 occurrences)
OG/Kinematic = for outer Galaxy kinematic distances (461 occurrences)
TP/Kinematic = for tangent point kinematic distances (354 occurrences)
HIEA+HISA/Kinematic = for HIE/A and HISA kinematic distances
from Anderson+ 2009, J/ApJS/181/255 (298 occurrences)
HIEA/Kinematic = for HIE/A kinematic distances (366 occurrences)
H2CO/Kinematic = for H2CO absorption kinematic distances (83 occurrences)
Visible/Kinematic = for inner Galaxy Sharpless HII region kinematic
distances (near distances assumed) (67 occurrences)
Various/Kinematic = (16 occurrences)
Sgr E = (20 occurrences)
Cygnus = (51 occurrences)
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: refs.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 34 A34 --- Ref Reference code (Author and year)
36- 54 A19 --- BibCode Bibcode of the reference
56- 76 A21 --- Comm Comment
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History:
Downloaded from: http://astro.phys.wvu.edu/wise/
(WISE Catalog V3.0 website columns)
(End) Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 15-Sep-2026