Ks-band (2.14 micron) imaging of southern massive star formation regions traced by methanol masers

Abstract

We present deep, wide-field, Ks-band (2.14 micron) images towards 87 southern massive star formation regions traced by methanol maser emission. Using point-spread function fitting, we generate 2.14 micron point source catalogues towards each of the regions. For the regions between 10 degrees and 350 degrees galactic longitude and galactic latitude +/- 1 degree, we match the 2.14 micron sources with the GLIMPSE point source catalogue to generate a combined 2.14 to 8.0 micron point source catalogue. We provide this data for the astronomical community to utilise in studies of the stellar content of embedded clusters.

Accepted PASA. Full version including figures available from http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~slongmor/snl_iris2_withfigs.pdf