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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
Photometry and mapping in the wavelength range 1.65–20 μ of the H II regions W3 and NGC 7538 have led to the discovery of a dozen new infrared emission sources. The sources have flux densities ranging up to 10–23 Wm–2 Hz–1 at 20 μ and diameters from < 3 to 40″. Some are associated with, and have similar brightness distributions to compact H II condensations observed at radio wavelengths; they have, however, 20-μ flux densities much greater than, and 2-μ flux densities much less than are predicted from the radio free-free spectra. It is concluded that in many cases there exist close spatial relationships between the hot dust and the ionized gas, and between infrared and OH/H2O emission sources.