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Massive Stars in Molecular Clouds Rich in High-energy Sources: The Bridge of G332.809-0.132 and CS 78 in NGC 6334
Maria Messineo, Karl M. Menten, Donald F. Figer +1
Detections of massive stars in the direction of the H II region CS 78 in NGC 6334 and of G332.809-0.132 are here presented. The region covered by the G332.809-0.132 complex coincid…
Detections of massive stars in the cluster MCM2005b77, in the star-forming regions GRS G331.3400.36 (S62) and GRS G337.9200.48 (S36)
Maria Messineo, Karl M. Menten, Donald F. Figer +2
Large infrared and millimeter wavelength surveys of the Galactic plane have unveiled more than 600 new bubble HII regions and more than 3000 candidate star clusters. We present a s…
Probing the Dragonfish star-forming complex: the ionizing population of the young massive cluster Mercer 30
D. de la Fuente, F. Najarro, J. Borissova +11
The Dragonfish Nebula has been recently claimed to be powered by a superluminous but elusive OB association. Instead, systematic searches in near-infrared photometric surveys have…
Massive Stars in the W33 Giant Molecular Complex
Maria Messineo, J. Simon Clark, Donald F. Figer +9
Rich in HII regions, giant molecular clouds are natural laboratories to study massive stars and sequential star formation. The Galactic star forming complex W33 is located at l=~12…
Near-infrared spectroscopy of candidate red supergiant stars in clusters
Maria Messineo, Zhu Qingfeng, Valentin D. Ivanov +5
Clear identifications of Galactic young stellar clusters farther than a few kpc from the Sun are rare, despite the large number of candidate clusters. We aim to improve the selecti…
Massive stars in the giant molecular cloud G23.3-0.3 and W41
Maria Messineo, Karl M. Menten, Donald F. Figer +7
Young massive stars and stellar clusters continuously form in the Galactic disk, generating new HII regions within their natal giant molecular clouds and subsequently enriching the…
Young Massive Clusters/Associations in the GMC G23.3-0.3
M. Messineo, K. M. Menten, D. Figer +7
An overview of a spectroscopic survey for massive stars in the direction of the Galactic giant molecular complex G23.3-0.3 is presented (Messineo et al. 2010, and 2014 A&A submitte…
Discovery and spectroscopic study of the massive Galactic cluster Mercer 81
Diego de la Fuente, Francisco Najarro, Ben Davies +1
During the last decade, hundreds of young massive cluster candidates have been detected in the disk of the Milky Way. We investigate one of these candidates, Mercer 81, which was d…
Multiwavelength Observations of Massive Stellar Cluster Candidates in the Galaxy
Emily E. Richards, Cornelia C. Lang, Christine Trombley +1
The Galaxy appears to be richer in young, massive stellar clusters than previously known, due to advances in infrared surveys which have uncovered deeply embedded regions of star f…
A newly-discovered young massive star cluster at the end of the Galactic Bar
Ben Davies, Diego de la Fuente, Francisco Najarro +4
We present a near-infrared study of the candidate star cluster Mercer 81, located at the centre of the G338.4+0.1 HII region, and close to the TeV gamma-ray source HESS 1640-465. U…
Infrared Diffuse Interstellar Bands in the Galactic Centre Region
T. R. Geballe, F. Najarro, D. F. Figer +2
The spectrum of any star viewed through a sufficient quantity of diffuse interstellar material reveals a number of absorption features collectively called diffuse interstellar band…
The G305 star-forming complex: the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2
Ben Davies, J. S. Clark, Christine Trombley +7
The G305 HII complex (G305.4+0.1) is one of the most massive star forming structures yet identified within the Galaxy. It is host to many massive stars at all stages of formation a…
Nuclear Star-Forming Ring of the Milky Way: Simulations
Sungsoo S. Kim, Takayuki R. Saitoh, Myoungwon Jeon +3
We present hydrodynamic simulations of gas clouds in the central kpc region of the Milky Way that is modeled with a three-dimensional bar potential. Our simulations consider realis…
Massive stars in the Cl 1813-178 Cluster. An episode of massive star formation in the W33 complex
Maria Messineo, Ben Davies, Donald F. Figer +5
Young massive (M >10^4 Msun) stellar clusters are a good laboratory to study the evolution of massive stars. Only a dozen of such clusters are known in the Galaxy. Here we report a…
Near-infrared spectroscopy in NGC 7538
E. Puga, A. Marín-Franch, F. Najarro +7
The characterisation of the stellar population toward young high-mass star-forming regions allows to constrain fundamental cluster properties like distance and age. These are essen…
HST/NICMOS observations of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster
Maria Messineo, Donald F. Figer, Ben Davies +4
We present HST/NICMOS photometry, and low-resolution K-band spectra of the GLIMPSE9 stellar cluster. The newly obtained color-magnitude diagram shows a cluster sequence with H-Ks =…
A Near-Infrared Study of the Stellar Cluster: [DBS2003] 45
Qingfeng Zhu, Ben Davies, Donald F. Figer +1
We present a multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic study of a newly discovered candidate cluster [DBS2003] 45. Our H, Ks photometry confirms that [DBS2003] 45 is a cluster…
Mass Distribution in the Central Few Parsecs of Our Galaxy
Seungkyung Oh, Sungsoo S. Kim, Donald F. Figer
We estimate the enclosed mass profile in the central 10 pc of the Milky Way by analyzing the infrared photometry and the velocity observations of dynamically relaxed stellar popula…
The stellar population of the star forming region G61.48+0.09
A. Marin-Franch, A. Herrero, A. Lenorzer +4
- Context: We present the results of a near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic study of the star forming region G61.48+0.09. - Aims: The purpose of this study is to characteriz…
Near-infrared spectra of Galactic stellar clusters detected on Spitzer/GLIMPSE images
Maria Messineo, Ben Davies, Valentin D. Ivanov +5
We present near-infrared spectroscopic observations of massive stars in three stellar clusters located in the direction of the inner Galaxy. One of them, the Quartet, is a new disc…
A third red supergiant rich cluster in the Scutum-Crux Arm
J. S. Clark, I. Negueruela, B. Davies +6
We aim to characterise the properties of a third massive, red supergiant dominated galactic cluster. To accomplish this we utilised a combination of near/mid-IR photometry and spec…
Chemical abundance patterns in the inner Galaxy: the Scutum Red Supergiant Clusters
Ben Davies, Livia Origlia, Rolf-Peter Kudritzki +5
The location of the Scutum Red-Supergiant (RSG) clusters at the end of the Galactic Bar makes them an excellent probe of the Galaxy's secular evolution; while the clusters themselv…