Exposing Star Formation through the spatial structure of young stellar objects
Abstract
We construct a catalog of the smallest significant young stellar substructures, that we call NESTs, by systematically applying a robust clustering method to a sample of 39 star-forming regions (SFRs). These small and compact clumps of young stellar objects (YSOs) reveal the densest discrete modes of star formation in each SFR. A comparison of these stellar substructures with the distribution of massive stars and molecular gas allows us to discriminate major distinct SFR types.
- Publication:
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The 20.5th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun (CS20.5)
- Pub Date:
- March 2021
- DOI:
- 10.5281/zenodo.4730691
- Bibcode:
- 2021csss.confE.321G
- Keywords:
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- Stellar systems;
- clusters;
- and associations