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Article Dans Une Revue The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Année : 2011

X-ray Star Clusters in the Carina Complex

Eric D. Feigelson
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Konstantin V. Getman
  • Fonction : Auteur
Leisa K. Townsley
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Patrick S. Broos
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Matthew S. Povich
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Gordon P. Garmire
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Robert R. King
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Thomas Preibisch
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Nathan Smith
Keivan G. Stassun
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Junfeng Wang
Scott Wolk
Hans Zinnecker
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Résumé

The distribution of young stars found in the Chandra Carina Complex Project (CCCP) is examined for clustering structure. X-ray surveys are advantageous for identifying young stellar populations compared to optical and infrared surveys in suffering less contamination from nebular emission and Galactic field stars. The analysis is based on smoothed maps of a spatially complete subsample of ~3000 brighter X-ray sources classified as Carina members and ~10,000 stars from the full CCCP sample. The principal known clusters are recovered, and some additional smaller groups are identified. No rich embedded clusters are present, although a number of sparse groups are found. The CCCP reveals considerable complexity in clustering properties. The Trumpler 14 and 15 clusters have rich stellar populations in unimodal, centrally concentrated structures several parsecs across. Non-spherical internal structure is seen, and large-scale low surface density distributions surround these rich clusters. Trumpler 16, in contrast, is comprised of several smaller clusters within a circular boundary. Collinder 228 is a third type of cluster which extends over tens of parsecs with many sparse compact groups likely arising from triggered star formation processes. A widely dispersed, but highly populous, distribution of X-ray stars across the ~50 pc CCCP mosaic supports a model of past generations of star formation in the region. Collinder 234, a group of massive stars without an associated cluster of pre-main-sequence stars, may be part of this dispersed population.

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insu-03645990 , version 1 (19-04-2022)

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Eric D. Feigelson, Konstantin V. Getman, Leisa K. Townsley, Patrick S. Broos, Matthew S. Povich, et al.. X-ray Star Clusters in the Carina Complex. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 2011, 194, ⟨10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/9⟩. ⟨insu-03645990⟩
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