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Billions of stars: the near infrared view of the Plane with UKIDSS and VISTA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Philip W. Lucas  and
David Samuel
Philip W. Lucas
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
David Samuel
Affiliation:
Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hertfordshire, College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK
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Abstract

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The UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS) is surveying the northern and equatorial plane in the J, H and K bands. Here we report initial results from searches for new clusters and star formation regions. 248 clusters have been detected by our Bayesian search, of which 127 are new. A visual inspection of the images is also proving successful. A cross match with Spitzer-GLIMPSE to find clusters of Young Stellar Objects is being attempted. No new globular clusters are detected except for two likely candidates already detected by Mercer et al. in GLIMPSE.

Keywords

surveysstars: formation(Galaxy:) open clusters and associations: general
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Highlights H15: Highlights of Astronomy , November 2009 , pp. 779
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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