2019MNRAS.490.5063I

We present a catalogue of a large sample of extended radio sources in the Stellar Continuum Originating from Radio Physics In Ourgalaxy (SCORPIO) field, observed and resolved by the Australia Telescope Compact Array. SCORPIO, a pathfinder project for addressing the early operations of the Australia SKA Pathfinder, is a survey of ∼5 square degrees between 1.4 and 3.1 GHz, centred at l = 343.5°, b = 0.75°, and with an angular resolution of about 10 arcsec. It is aimed at understanding the scientific and technical challenges to be faced by future Galactic surveys. With a mean sensitivity around 100 µJy beam^–1 and the possibility to recover angular scales at least up to 4 arcmin, we extracted 99 extended sources, 35 of them detected for the first time. Among the 64 known sources 55 had at least a tentative classification in literature. Studying the radio morphology and comparing the radio emission with infrared we propose as candidates six new H II regions, two new planetary nebulae, two new luminous blue variable or Wolf-Rayet stars, and three new supernova remnants. This study provides an overview of the potentiality of future radio surveys in terms of Galactic source extraction and characterization and a discussion on the difficulty to reduce and analyse interferometric data on the Galactic plane.