Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
May 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21811003d&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #218, #110.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Understanding massive "starburst" clusters is crucial for the first stars, starburst galaxies, galactic nucleosynthesis, evolution and ISM mixing, and star and planet formation on universal and Galactic scales. Recent awareness that the 2 Myr old cluster Cygnus OB2, at only 1.5kpc, has supercluster characteristics, motivated a Chandra VLP survey of the region as part of a large multiwavelength legacy effort exploiting its proximity to learn about starburst astrophysics. I will present the first results from the ongoing analysis of the survey that was completed a year ago. About 10,000 stars down to 0.5 solar masses have been detected, proving the most complete census of a massive star forming region ever obtained and large star samples with which to test theories of giant molecular cloud collapse, massive star formation and protoplanetary disk evolution.
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