Locating New Sites of Massive Star Formation With WISE

Details Locating New Sites of Massive Star Formation With WISE Locating New Sites of Massive Star Formation With WISE

Jan 2012

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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #349.13

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has the power to detect star formation regions over the entire Galactic disk at extreme distances from the Sun. WISE covers the entire sky at wavelengths from 3μm to 25μm, although the data released thus far cover approximately l=60° to -60° and l=120° to 240° along the Galactic plane. The Galaxy flares in the outer part of the disk, and therefore the most distant star forming regions are found off the plane at high and low Galactic latitudes. These parts of the Galaxy were largely not observed by the Spitzer Legacy projects. We have shown in previous work the utility of mid-infrared data in locating previously unknown HII regions, and we have developed infrared color criteria to locate HII regions. Here we report on an ongoing survey to locate star formation sites with WISE and we analyze the properties of the detected candidate star forming regions.

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