Young stellar clusters and star formation throughout the Galaxy

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dc.creatorFeigelson, Eric
dc.creatorAdams, Fred
dc.creatorAllen, Lori
dc.creatorBergin, Edwin
dc.creatorBally, John
dc.creatorBalog, Zoltan
dc.creatorBourke, Tyler
dc.creatorBrogan, Crystal
dc.creatorChu, You-Hua
dc.creatorChurchwell, Edward
dc.creatorGagne, Marc
dc.creatorGetman, Konstantin
dc.creatorHunter, Todd
dc.creatorMorgan, Larry
dc.creatorMassey, Philip
dc.creatorMac Low, Mordecai-Mark
dc.creatorMamajek, Eric
dc.creatorMegeath, S. Thomas
dc.creatorO'Dell, C. Robert
dc.creatorRathborne, Jill
dc.creatorRebull, Luisa
dc.creatorStahler, Steven
dc.creatorTownsley, Leisa
dc.creatorWang, Junfeng
dc.creatorWilliams, Jonathan
dc.date2009-03-02
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T12:48:14Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T12:48:14Z
dc.descriptionMost stars are born in rich young stellar clusters (YSCs) embedded in giant molecular clouds. The most massive stars live out their short lives there, profoundly influencing their natal environments by ionizing HII regions, inflating wind-blown bubbles, and soon exploding as supernovae. Thousands of lower-mass pre-main sequence stars accompany the massive stars, and the expanding HII regions paradoxically trigger new star formation as they destroy their natal clouds. While this schematic picture is established, our understanding of the complex astrophysical processes involved in clustered star formation have only just begun to be elucidated. The technologies are challenging, requiring both high spatial resolution and wide fields at wavelengths that penetrate obscuring molecular material and remove contaminating Galactic field stars. We outline several important projects for the coming decade: the IMFs and structures of YSCs; triggered star formation around YSC; the fate of OB winds; the stellar populations of Infrared Dark Clouds; the most massive star clusters in the Galaxy; tracing star formation throughout the Galactic Disk; the Galactic Center region and YSCs in the Magellanic Clouds. Programmatic recommendations include: developing a 30m-class adaptive optics infrared telescope; support for high-resolution and wide field X-ray telescopes; large-aperture sub-millimeter and far-infrared telescopes; multi-object infrared spectrographs; and both numerical and analytical theory.
dc.descriptionScience Working Paper for the Astro2010 Decadal Survey. For a version with color figures, see http://www.astro.psu.edu/users/edf/Feigelson_young_clusters_PSF_GAN.pdf
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0374
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0903.0374
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/221985
dc.subjectAstrophysics of Galaxies
dc.titleYoung stellar clusters and star formation throughout the Galaxy
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