One Hundred 30 Dors: Is The Milky Way Different Or Are We Somehow Missing Them?

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007aas...211.5814h&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #211, #58.14; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.836

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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There are a few ways to estimate the number of massive open clusters expected in the disk of the Milky Way, such as the total star formation rate of the Galaxy, or the observed local, open cluster mass function extrapolated to include the entire Galaxy. Surprisingly, they give similar predictions: the Milky Way should contain about 100 clusters as massive as 30 Doradus (104 M) in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and even several clusters with 10 times that mass. Why don't we see them? We will present sophisticated Monte Carlo imaging simulations we are doing to estimate the selection biases faced by current near-infrared searches for these massive clusters.

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