Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-11-13
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, needs aa.cls and psfig.sty (included), A&A in press
Scientific paper
The large body of near infrared observations presented in Testi et al. (1997; 1998) are analysed with the aim of characterizing the young stellar clusters surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars. The results confirm the tendency of early Be stars to be surrounded by dense clusters of lower mass "companions", while Ae stars are never found to be associated with conspicuous groups. The transition between the different environments appears to occur smoothly from Ae to Be stars without a sharp threshold. No correlation of the richness of the stellar groups detected is found with the galactic position or the age of the central Herbig Ae/Be star. The stellar volume densities estimated for the groups surrounding pre-main-sequence stars of intermediate mass show the transition from the low density aggregates of T Tauri stars and the dense clusters around massive stars. Only the most massive stars (10-20Msun) are found to be associated with dense (10^3 pc^-3) stellar clusters. This is exactly the mass regime at which the conventional accretion scenario for isolated star formation faces theoretical problems. Thus our findings strongly supports the idea that the formation of high-mass stars is influenced by dynamical interaction in a young cluster environment.
Natta Antonella
Palla Fabrizio
Testi Leonard
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