• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/153
Corpus ID: 119196894

The Milky Way Project: What are Yellowballs?

@article{Kerton2015TheMW,
  title={The Milky Way Project: What are Yellowballs?},
  author={C. Kerton and G. Wolf-Chase and K. Arvidsson and C. Lintott and R. Simpson},
  journal={arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics},
  year={2015}
}

C. Kerton, G. Wolf-Chase, +2 authors R. Simpson

Published 2015

Physics

arXiv: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Yellowballs are a collection of approximately 900 compact, infrared sources identified and named by volunteers participating in the Milky Way Project (MWP), a citizen-science project that uses GLIMPSE/MIPSGAL images from Spitzer to explore topics related to Galactic star formation. In this paper, through a combination of catalog cross-matching and infrared color analysis, we show that yellowballs are a mix of compact star-forming regions, including ultra-compact and compact HII regions, as well… CONTINUE READING

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