The Excited Atomic Hydrogen Lines 126a and 127a in HII Regions

Abstract

Forty radio sources have been observed for the presence of the hydrogen recombination lines 126", at 3248·708 MHz and 127", at 3172·864 MHz with a 6' arc aerial beam and a receiver with 48 channels of 37 kHz bandwidth each. Detections were made in 34 sources, all of which were either HI! regions or optically unidentified thermal sources.