Young Stars in NGC 6231 and the Sco OB1 Association

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Dec 2008

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008hsf2.book..401r&link_type=abstract

Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume II: The Southern Sky ASP Monograph Publications, Vol. 5. Edited by Bo Reipurth, p.401

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NGC 6231 is a young cluster in the southern sky, around 3-5 Myr old, located at a distance of about 1.6 kpc at the near side of the Sagittarius spiral arm. It forms the nucleus of the extended Sco OB1 association. The cluster is very rich, with more than 100 massive stars, among them 15 O-stars. Radial velocity studies have revealed a very large binary fraction among these OB stars. The young low-mass population has recently been identified using deep X-ray observations. Within the large HII region Gum 55 that surrounds NGC 6231 there exists a major elephant trunk, which shows evidence for recent second-generation star formation in the form of young B-stars surrounded by reflection nebulae and a number of low-mass Hα emission stars.

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