Age Sequence in Small Clusters Associated with Bright-Rimmed Clouds

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2006-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611845v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in PASJ

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Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) found in H II regions are probable sites of triggered star formation due to compression by ionization/shock fronts, and it is hypothesized that star formation proceeds from the exciting star(s) side outward of the HII region ("small-scale sequential star formation"). In order to quantitatively testify this hypothesis we undertook BVIc photometry of four BRC aggregates. The amounts of interstellar extinction and reddening for each star have been estimated by using the JHKs photometry. Then we constructed reddening-corrected V/V-Ic color-magnitude diagrams, where the age of each star has been derived. All the stars turned out to be a few tenths to a few Myr old. Although the scatters are large and the numbers of the sample stars are small, we found a clear trend that the stars inside or in the immediate vicinity of the bright rim are younger than those outside it in all the four aggregates, confirming the hypothesis in question.

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