Watching the Birth of Super Star Clusters

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2003-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0311186v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

7 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Star Formation at High Angular Resolution, ed. R. Jayawardhana, M. G. Burton, and T. L. Bourk

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Subarcsecond infrared and radio observations yield important information about the formation of super star clusters from their surrounding gas. We discuss the general properties of ionized and molecular gas near young, forming SSCs, as illustrated by the prototypical young forming super star cluster nebula in the dwarf galaxy, NGC 5253. This super star cluster appears to have a gravitationally bound nebula. The lack of molecular gas suggests a very high star formation efficiency, consistent with the formation of a large, bound star cluster.

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