Young massive stellar clusters in the Milky Way: tips and tricks (Maria Messineo, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany)

The recent 2MASS and Spitzer/GLIMPSE surveys have revealed over a thousand candidate stellar clusters, 

which are hidden behind copious amounts of dust and gas in the Galactic plane.

By combining multi-wavelength photometric information (near-, mid-infrared, radio and X data), it is possible 

to select new candidate massive clusters, by identifying their candidate massive members. 

Only a dozen massive (> 10^4 Msun) stellar clusters are currently known in the Milky Way.

I will present a multi-wavelength analysis of newly discovered young massive  clusters,  and unveil their 

massive stellar content. The clusters GLIMPSE9 and Cl1813-178  are part of two giant molecular clouds,

which are extremely rich of HII regions and SNRs. We have undertaken a search of massive stars over the

whole region. First SINFONI observations reveail a spread population of massive stars.