Investigating the population of Galactic star formation regions and star clusters within a Wide-Fast-Deep Coverage of the Galactic Plane
/ Authors
L. Prisinzano, L. Magrini, F. Damiani, G. Sacco, R. Bonito, L. Venuti, G. Casali, V. Roccatagliata, S. Randich, L. Inno
and 25 more authors
T. Cantat-Gaudin, D. Minniti, A. Bragaglia, S. D. Innocenti, P. Moroni, E. Tognelli, A. Sollima, A. Vallenari, M. Guarcello, S. Messina, G. Micela, S. Sciortino, A. Spagna, N. Sanna, J. Kastner, A. Roman, R. Szabó, B. Dias, E. Feigelson, R. Jeffries, E. Friel, J. Stauffer, M. V. D. Swaelmen, R. Sordo, D. Bossini
/ 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.
Journal: arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics