Description
We report near-infrared (NIR) broadband and narrowband photometric observations in the direction of the IRAS 17149-3916 source that reveal the presence of a young cluster of massive stars embedded in an HII region coincident with RCW 121. These observations, together with published radio data and Midcourse Space Experiment and Spitzer images, were used to determine some of the physical parameters of the region. We found 96 cluster member candidates in an area of about 1.5x2.0arcmin^2^, 30% of them showing excess emission in the near-IR.
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