Investigating the population of Galactic star formation regions and star clusters within a Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane
Abstract
One of the aims of LSST is to perform a systematic survey of star clusters and star forming regions (SFRs) in our Galaxy. In particular, the observations obtained with LSST will make a big difference in Galactic regions that have been poorly studied in the past, such as the anticenter and the disk beyond the Galactic center, and they will have a strong impact in discovering new distant SFRs. These results can be achieved by exploiting the exquisite depth that will be attained if the wide-fast-deep (WFD) observing strategy of the main survey is also adopted for the Galactic plane, in the g, r, and i filters.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1812.03025
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1812.03025
- Bibcode:
- 2018arXiv181203025P
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
- E-Print:
- Submitted White Paper for the cadence optimization call of LSST, November 30 2018