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3. Data reduction

The data were reduced as described in Paper I, using the reduction package Miriad (Sault et al. 1995). The data were searched with an adapted version of the CLEAN algorithm, fully described in Appendix A of Paper I. This was performed on a Cray-C98. During the observations for the Disk region, especially its parts furthest away from the galactic Centre, considerable narrow-band radio-frequency interference (RFI) was present. To minimize this, we performed two steps of removal of RFI. Before any searching of the data we automatically traced and flagged any time-cuts that contained RFI spikes. After removal of the brightest sources, we fitted 11tex2html_wrap_inline1194-order polynomials (UVLIN routine in Miriad, Sault 1994, see Paper I) to all visibilities in order to remove wide-band RFI. In part B of the Disk region hardly any narrow-band RFI was found present, however, in part A severe narrow-band RFI was present in tex2html_wrap_inline1152 20% of the fields. After flagging the time-cuts with RFI, the serviceable integration time on these fields was reduced on average by tex2html_wrap_inline1152 30% (see Fig. 1). Still, even in the fields with shortest integration times, the integration times are similar to those in the Bulge region (Paper I). The source-finding algorithm is as described in the appendix of Paper I. The lowest level of searching was performed with minimum flux density of 90 mJy. The cell sizes used are tex2html_wrap_inline1200 in the first two passes of source finding and tex2html_wrap_inline1202 in subsequent passes.

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Figure 2: The longitude-latitude and longitude-velocity distributions for all the sources in the galactic Disk region

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Figure 3: The histograms of the line-of-sight velocity and the expansion velocity of all the sources in the galactic Disk region. The mean expansion velocity is tex2html_wrap_inline1204



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