A Near Infrared Investigation of Optically Obscured Galactic Giant H II Regions

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Feb 1999

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NOAO Proposal ID #1999A-0179

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We propose to continue our survey of giant HII regions at JHK. Our eventual goals are to characterize their stellar content, investigate the nature of massive star formation, and to use the derived infrared spectral types to determine distances and as probes of Galactic structure. The infrared photometry will be used to identify massive star and young stellar object candidates for follow-up spectroscopy (on 4m and 8m class telescopes). Our program and other recent near infrared observations are producing examples of clusters of new born stars (some up to ~ 10^5 M_&sun;). This mode of star formation is virtually unexplored in the Galaxy due to obscuration by dust toward star forming regions. In addition, to the best of our knowledge, the present observations and those by Hanson et al. (1997) form the only known sample of massive young stellar objects (up to ~ 20 M_&sun;).

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