INFRARED IDENTIFICATION OF SIO MASER SOURCES TOWARD THE SGR B2 MOLECULAR CLOUD

J, H, and K imaging observations have been made in order to identify i nfrared counterparts for 6 new SiO maser sources toward the Sgr B2 mol ecular cloud. Only two of these 6 new sources were previously identifi ed with known objects in other catalogues: one with an OH/IR object, a nother with an IRAS point source. With the imaging observations, we fi nd infrared counterparts for four of the objects: #1, #2, #4, and #7. These are late-type stars either nearby or near to the galactic center . The remaining two sources of which we could not find counterparts ca n be candidates of young stellar objects with SiO masers. However, it is highly possible that these two are late-type stars located behind t he galactic-center molecular cloud, suffering from very high dust exti nction.