Red MSX Source Catalog Overview
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Overview

The Red MSX Source (RMS) Survey is the largest statistically selected catalog of young massive protostars and HII regions to date. Within the adopted selection bounds it is more than 90% complete for the massive protostellar population, with a positional accuracy of the exciting source of better than 2 arcseconds.

If you use the Red MSX Source Catalog, please cite Lumsden et al. (2013) and the dataset Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.26131/IRSA582.

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