Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-12-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, to be published in the proceedings of Interactions of Stars with their Environments III 2006
Scientific paper
The Red MSX Source (RMS) survey is a multi-wavelength programme of follow-up observations designed to distinguish between genuine massive young stellar objects (MYSOs) and other embedded or dusty objects, such as ultra compact (UC) HII regions, evolved stars and planetary nebulae (PNe), from a sample of ~2000 MYSOs candidates. These were identified by comparing the colours of objects from the MSX and 2MASS point source catalogues to those of known MYSOs, in order to develop colour selection criteria which have been used to produced the RMS sample of MYSOs candidates. Our ultimate aim is to produce a large unbiased sample of MYSOs (~500) with complementary multi-wavelength data with which to study their properties. Here we report the results of 826 radio continuum and 346 mid-IR imaging observations carried out using the Australia Telescope Compact Array and TIMMI2 on the ESO 3.6 m telescope respectively. These observations are aimed at identifying and removing contaminating sources.
Hoare Melvin G.
Lumsden Stuart L.
Mottram Joseph Christopher
Oudmaijer Rene D.
Urquhart James S.
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