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Massive Star Formation Throughout the Galactic Disk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2010

Stan Kurtz*
Affiliation:
Center for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Morelia, Michoacan 58089, Mexico email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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High-mass star formation is manifestly a phenomenon of the Galactic Plane. The process begins with pre-stellar cores, evolves to proto-stellar objects, and culminates in massive main-sequence stars. Because massive young stellar objects are deeply embedded, the radio, sub-mm, and far/mid-infrared spectral windows are the most revealing. Galactic plane surveys at these wavelengths trace hot and cold molecular gas, interstellar masers, warm dust, and ionized gas that are present during star formation.

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