Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2010-08-02
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Accepted for publication at Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Massive SFR are characterized by intense ionizing fluxes, strong stellar winds and supernovae explosions, all of which have important effects on the surrounding media, on the star-formation (SF) process and on the evolution of YSOs and their disks. We present a multiband study of the massive young cluster NGC6611 and M16, to study how OB stars affect the early stellar evolution and the SF. We search for evidence of triggered SF by OB stars in NGC6611 on a large spatial scale (~10 pc) and how the efficiency of disks photoevaporation depends on the central stars mass. We assemble a multiband catalog with photometric data, from B band to 8.0micron, and X-ray data obtained with 2 new and 1 archival ACIS-I observation. We select the stars with disks from IR photometry and disk-less from X-ray emission, both in NGC6611 and the outer region of M16. We study induced photoevaporation searching for the spatial variation of disk frequency for distinct stellar mass ranges. The triggering of SF by OB stars has been investigated by deriving the history of SF across the nebula. We find evidence of sequential SF in the Eagle Nebula going from the SE (2.6 Myrs) to the NW (0.3 Myrs), with the median age of ~1 Myear. We observe a drop of the disk frequency close to OB stars (up to an average distance of 1 pc), without effects at larger distances. Furthermore, disks are more frequent around low-mass stars (<1 M(solar)) than in high-mass stars, regardless of the distance from OB stars. The SF chronology in M16 does not support the hypothesis of a large-scale SF triggered by OB stars in NGC6611. Instead, we speculate that it was triggered by the encounter (~3 Myrs ago) with a giant molecular shell created ~6 Myrs ago.
Guarcello Mario G.
Micela Giuseppina
Peres Giovanni
Prisinzano Loredana
Sciortino Salvatore
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