A Search for Highly Luminous Stars in the Southern Milky Way.
Abstract
In order to create a finding list of stars known to be at very large distances from the sun and also known to be relatively young objects which trace out the spiral structure of our galaxy, objective prism plates taken at Cerro Tololo InterAmerican Observatory have been used to survey the southern Milky Way for stars earlier than spectral type GO and at least as intrinsically luminous as a B2 dwarf. The survey is now complete, and its completion means that the entire Milky Way has now been surveyed in this way down to about photographic magnitude 12. Our catalogue, which is still being prepared for publication as of this writing, contains 5132 stars, about the same number as found in the somewhat larger area of sky represented by the northern Milky Way. The survey has also identified large numbers of individually interesting stars of othe types, some of which we have already published and others of which will be followed up in future in separate publications. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0722041
Entities
People
- Charles B. Stephenson
Organizations
- Case Western Reserve University