The Spitzer/SAGE View of Star Formation in the LMC

Details The Spitzer/SAGE View of Star Formation in the LMC The Spitzer/SAGE View of Star Formation in the LMC

Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #192.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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The Magellanic Clouds are unique laboratories to understand star formation in the distant universe. The physics of star formation processes in molecular clouds and the evolution of young stellar objects (YSOs) is expected to depend on metallicity; the Clouds and outer reaches of our Galaxy are the only places that individual YSOs with subsolar metallicity can be isolated. The Magellanic Clouds are also the only place that a full census of individual YSOs in an external galaxy can be studied. We present the first results on star formation in the LMC using SAGE data: We show how luminous YSOs can be selected from the point source catalogs and classified. We discuss their distribution in space and time (evolutionary state), relative to large structures in the interstellar medium. We also discuss the properties of compact HII regions and small clusters in the LMC. These topics are only the beginning of the rich studies which will be enabled by the SAGE dataset.
The SAGE Project is supported by NASA/Spitzer grant 1275598 and NASA NAG5-12595.

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