Abstract
The region within + or - 1.5 deg of the galactic center has been surveyed at a resolution of 1 arcmin between 40 and 250 microns. Forty-seven FIR sources were detected in the field, 38 of them spatially coincident with prominent radio-emitting regions. The 27 sources associated with H II regions have luminosities ranging from 500,000 to ten million solar luminosities, average infrared excesses of 16, and average dust-to-gas ratios of 0.002. They are located in a narrow band centered on Sgr A. Each FIR source appears to be powered by small numbers of early type O stars. The initial luminosity functions for these sources is best fitted by an exponential form with an e-folding luminosity of 2.3 million solar luminosities. The extended thermal emission of the region is consistent with a population of 30,000-50,000 ZAMS stars embedded in an ISM with a Lyman-continuum optical depth of 1-1.5.
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