COMPACT RADIO-SOURCES NEAR THE GALACTIC PLANE

The results of our extension of the 20 cm Galactic plane survey reported by Zoonematkermani and coworkers to Galactic latitudes of +/- 1-degrees.8 over the central region of the Milky Way )(-1O-degrees less-than-or-equal-to 1 less-than-or-equal-to 40-degrees) are reported. We catalog 1457 new discrete radio sources down to flux densities of less than or similar to 5 mJy and are 95% complete at 20 mJy. A detailed comparison of all radio sources from our complete survey in this longitude range with the IRAS Point Source Catalog provides classification for 13% of the objects, including 159 compact H ii regions, and nearly 100 planetary nebulae over 70 of which are newly identified. We comment briefly on the identity of the remaining radio sources and on the importance of our 6 cm survey, currently underway, in defining the radio source population of the Galaxy.