Star Formation in the Milky Way. The Infrared View

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent infrared observations of star formation in the Milky Way, focusing on scaling laws, modeling, and star formation rate estimates using data from Spitzer and Herschel telescopes.

Contribution

It synthesizes recent findings linking extragalactic scaling laws with local molecular cloud observations and provides updated models and star formation rate estimates for the Milky Way.

Findings

Scaling relationships in star formation are consistent across extragalactic and galactic scales.

Synthetic models of the Milky Way's star formation provide new insights.

Estimated star formation rate aligns with recent observational data.

Abstract

I present a brief review of some of the most recent and active topics of star formation process in the Milky Way using mid and far infrared observations, and motivated by the research being carried out by our science group using data gathered by the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes. These topics include bringing together the scaling relationships found in extragalactic systems with that of the local nearby molecular clouds, the synthetic modeling of the Milky Way and estimates of its star formation rate.