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Nov 11
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"A Spitzer Space Telescope view of star formation
in the Milky Way"
Thomas Robitaille, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
"In this talk I will present recent results relating to star formation
in the Milky-Way from the Spitzer Space Telescope GLIMPSE and MIPSGAL
surveys. I will discuss a census of thousands of young stellar objects
in the Galactic plane that we have carried out, and work done on a
population synthesis model aimed at determining the present rate of
star-formation in the Galaxy. In parallel, I will discuss the work we
have carried out to interpret the spectral energy distributions of
these thousands of young stars, and will describe recent work carried
out to compute a new set of models that will better meet the
challenges of modeling recent and future datasets, such as the UKIDSS,
Bolocam, and Herschel Galactic plane surveys."
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