ABSTRACT A brief description is given of the GLIMPSE surveys, including the areas
surveyed, sensitivity limits, and products. The primary motivations for this review are to …

By searching the IRAS and ISO databases, we compiled a list of 60 debris disks that exhibit
the highest fractional luminosity values (fd> 10-4) in the vicinity of the Sun (d< 120 pc) …

We present the initial results from the Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (S3MC),
which imaged the star-forming body of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in all seven MIPS …

Stellar infrared excesses can indicate various phenomena of interest, from protoplanetary
disks to debris disks, or (more speculatively) techno-signatures along the lines of Dyson …

Aims. The properties of the early-type stars in the core of the Westerlund 2 cluster are
examined in order to establish a link between the cluster and the very massive Wolf-Rayet …

Context. Most stars in the Galaxy were formed in massive clusters. To understand nature's
favorite mode of star formation and the initial stages of the life of most stars one needs to …

We present a spectroscopic and photometric determination of the distance to the young
Galactic open cluster Westerlund 2 using WFPC2 imaging from the Hubble Space …

We report the discovery of six infrared stellar wind bow shocks in the Galactic massive star
formation regions M17 and RCW 49 from Spitzer GLIMPSE (Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid …

We performed a 24 μm 2× 1 survey of the Pleiades cluster, using the MIPS instrument on
Spitzer. Fifty-four members ranging in spectral type from B8 to K6 show 24 μm fluxes …

We have surveyed the 30 Myr old cluster NGC 2547 for planetary debris disks using Spitzer.
At 4.5-8 μm we are sensitive to the photospheric level down to mid-M stars (0.2 M☉), and at …