MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters
Observations of the spatial distributions of young stars in star-forming regions can be linked to the theory of clustered star formation using spatial statistical methods. The MYStIX project provides rich samples of young stars from the nearest high-mass star-forming regions. Maps of stellar surface...
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| author | Kuhn, M. Baddeley, Adrian Feigelson, E. Getman, K. Broos, P. Townsley, L. Povich, M. Naylor, T. King, R. Busk, H. Luhman, K. |
| author_facet | Kuhn, M. Baddeley, Adrian Feigelson, E. Getman, K. Broos, P. Townsley, L. Povich, M. Naylor, T. King, R. Busk, H. Luhman, K. |
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| description | Observations of the spatial distributions of young stars in star-forming regions can be linked to the theory of clustered star formation using spatial statistical methods. The MYStIX project provides rich samples of young stars from the nearest high-mass star-forming regions. Maps of stellar surface density reveal diverse structure and subclustering. Young stellar clusters and subclusters are fit with isothermal spheres and ellipsoids using the Bayesian Information Criterion to estimate the number of subclusters. Clustering is also investigated using Cartwright and Whitworth’s Q statistic and the inhomogeneous two-point correlation function. Mass segregation is detected in several cases, in both centrally concentrated and fractally structured star clusters, but a few clusters are not mass segregated. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-158312018-03-29T09:07:23Z MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters Kuhn, M. Baddeley, Adrian Feigelson, E. Getman, K. Broos, P. Townsley, L. Povich, M. Naylor, T. King, R. Busk, H. Luhman, K. Observations of the spatial distributions of young stars in star-forming regions can be linked to the theory of clustered star formation using spatial statistical methods. The MYStIX project provides rich samples of young stars from the nearest high-mass star-forming regions. Maps of stellar surface density reveal diverse structure and subclustering. Young stellar clusters and subclusters are fit with isothermal spheres and ellipsoids using the Bayesian Information Criterion to estimate the number of subclusters. Clustering is also investigated using Cartwright and Whitworth’s Q statistic and the inhomogeneous two-point correlation function. Mass segregation is detected in several cases, in both centrally concentrated and fractally structured star clusters, but a few clusters are not mass segregated. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15831 10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_90 restricted |
| spellingShingle | Kuhn, M. Baddeley, Adrian Feigelson, E. Getman, K. Broos, P. Townsley, L. Povich, M. Naylor, T. King, R. Busk, H. Luhman, K. MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title | MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title_full | MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title_fullStr | MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title_full_unstemmed | MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title_short | MYStIX first results: Spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| title_sort | mystix first results: spatial structures of massive young stellar clusters |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15831 |