AAO Colloquium.

Monday May 24th 2010 - 3:30pm AAO Conference Room

The RMS Survey - Massive Star Formation in the Milky Way

Stuart Lumsden

Leeds, UK

Abstract:
I will describe the decade old Red MSX Source Survey which has been designed to find all forming stars of mass greater than B0 in our Galaxy and which is now reaching completion. I will discuss details of the catalogue construction, and some key results that have come from it.