Molecular clouds and star formation toward the Galactic plane within 216.25° ≤ l ≤ 218.75° and −0.75° ≤ b ≤ 1.25°

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Table 1

Molecular clouds identified in this region.

Cloud	l	b	RA(J2000)	Dec(J2000)	υ_lsr^a	D^b	D_GC	H	Location
	(°)	(°)	(hh:mm:ss.s)	(dd:mm:ss)	(km s^-1)	(kpc)	(kpc)	(pc)

15 km s^-1 cloud	217.278	−0.237	06:58:30.5	−03:56:17	15.92	1.35	9.47	−5.58	interarm
27 km s^-1 cloud	217.752	−0.148	06:59:17.2	−03:59:16	27.17	2.42	10.38	−6.25	Perseus Arm
50 km s^-1 cloud	217.145	0.523	07:00:59.8	−03:30:35	50.60	5.40	13.05	49.29	Outer Arm

Notes.

^(a)

The velocity is taken to be the Gaussian fit velocity of the ¹³CO average spectrum.

^(b)

The distance is estimated with the A5 model of Reid et al. (2014).

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