SiO maser survey of the galactic disk IRAS sources. II. vertical bar l vertical bar <= 3 degrees and vertical bar b vertical bar <= 3 degrees, the Galactic center area

A survey has been made in the SiO J = 1-0, upsilon = 1 and 2 transitions (s imilar to 43 GHz) for color-selected IRAS sources in the Galactic-center re gion of \l\ less than or equal to 3 degrees and \b\ less than or equal to 3 degrees using the Nobeyama 45 m telescope. We have detected 86 of 176 obse rved sources in the SiO masers. Distances to the sources are deduced from I RAS 12 and 25 mu m flux densities and range approximately from 5 to 12 kpc. Radial velocities of the detected sources spread between -300 and 310 km s (-1). The longitude-velocity (I-v) diagram exhibits an empty region of sour ces at I = -0.degrees 4-1.degrees 0 and V-lsr = 20-150 km s(-1), which is i nterpreted as an undersampling effect of sources in the IRAS catalog at the Galactic central disk. The rotation rate, velocity dispersion, tilt angle of the rotation axis, and velocity shift at I = 0 degrees are derived by fi tting the velocities of the sources with a straight line as a function of G alactic longitude. These quantities are compatible with those obtained from previous observations of bulge stars with \b\ > 3 degrees. The average rad ial velocity of subsamples of stars tends to increase with distance, sugges ting the presence streaming motion of stars in a barlike bulge. We conclude that most of the IRAS sources in the sample belong to the bulge.