Identification of Young Stars and Sub-Clusters in Rich Cluster Environments
Abstract
A significant fraction of stars in our Galaxy form in large clusters with thousands of members. I will present our program to combine ground-based near-infrared observations with mid-infrared observations from Spitzer and WISE to identify young stelar objects that belong to some of the richest clusters in the Galaxy. We use these populations to examine how the degree and size scale of sub-clusterting of young stellar object populations varies in different star-forming environments.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #225
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015AAS...22512803W