Research report 2008 - Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
ATLASGAL: the APEX survey of cold dust in our Milky Way
Authors
Wyrowski, Friedrich; Schuller, Frédéric; Menten, Karl M.
Departments
Millimeter- und Submillimeter-Astronomie (Prof. Dr. Karl Menten)
MPI für Radioastronomie, Bonn
Summary
The ATLASGAL project is a complete survey of cold dust in our Milky Way using the new submillimeter bolometer camera at the APEX telescope. Our goal is to produce a large scale, systematic database of massive clumps in the Galaxy, in order to better understand how and under which conditions star formation takes place. Such a systematic survey at submillimeter wavelengths also represents a pioneering work for the preparation of Herschel and ALMA.