The Milky Way Project: A statistical study of massive star formation associated with infrared bubbles

The Milky Way Project citizen science initiative recently increased the number of known infrared bubbles in the inner Galactic plane by an order of magnitude compared to previous studies. We present a detailed statistical analysis of this dataset with the Red MSX Source catalog of massive young stel...

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Main Authors: Kendrew, S, Simpson, R, Bressert, E, Povich, MS, Sherman, R, Lintott, C, Robitaille, T, Schawinski, K, Wolf-Chase, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012