THE RED MSX SOURCE SURVEY: THE MASSIVE YOUNG STELLAR POPULATION OF OUR GALAXY
By S. Lumsden, M. Hoare, J. Urquhart, R. Oudmaijer, B. Davies, J. Mottram, H. Cooper, T. U. O. Leeds, Leeds, Uk and 10 more. 2013
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We present the Red MSX Source survey, the largest statistically selected catalog of young massive protostars and H ii regions to date. We outline the construction of the catalog using mid- and near-infrared color selection. We also discuss the detailed follow up work at other wavelengths, including higher spatial resolution data in the infrared. We show that within the adopted selection bounds we are more than 90% complete for the massive protostellar population, with a positional accuracy of the exciting source of better than 2 arcsec. We briefly summarize some of the results that can be obtained from studying the properties of the objects in the catalog as a whole; we find evidence that the most massive stars form: (1) preferentially nearer the Galactic center than the anti-center; (2) in the most heavily reddened environments, suggestive of high accretion rates; and (3) from the most massive cloud cores.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation
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- ATLASGAL - properties of a complete sample of Galactic clumps (2017, background): “…in the MSX survey and so not included in the MSX point source catalogue (Price et al. 2001) and consequently not included in the RMS sample (Lumsden et al. 2013); 2) the clumps are located towards the Galactic centre in a region excluded from the RMS survey due to problems with source…”
- ATLASGAL — towards a complete sample of massive star forming clumps ⋆ (2014, methodology): “A detailed description of these follow-up observations and discussion of the properties of the final catalogue are presented in Lumsden et al. (2013).”
- The ATLASGAL survey: a catalog of dust condensations in the Galactic plane (2013, background): “These contaminating sources have been identified through a set of multi-wavelength observations (e.g. Urquhart et al.2008) and were removed from the final sample (Lumsden et al. 2013).”
- The RMS survey : Galactic distribution of massive star formation (2013, background): “The RMS source classification criteria have evolved over time as the data obtained from the various programmes of follow-up observations have been analysed [we refer the reader to Lumsden et al. (2013) for a detailed description of the classification criteria is presented].”