Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Sep 2009
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cfdd.confe..90d&link_type=abstract
Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Proceedings of the conference held 22-25 September, 2009 in Boston, MA. Edited by Scott Wo
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Stars And Star Formation
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. But our few known Galactic superclusters are generally too distant for detailed study. Recent awareness that the 2Myr old Cygnus OB2 association, at only 1.5kpc, has supercluster characteristics, has prompted a large multiwavelength legacy effort exploiting its proximity to learn about starburst astrophysics. This Chandra legacy survey, approved for AO11, will provide an unprecendented vision of the anatomy of a massive, largely coherent mode of star formation, allowing detailed archeology of its history and content. 8000-10000 stars down to 0.5M_&sun; and beyond will be detected, providing large samples to test theories of giant molecular cloud collapse, massive starformation and protoplanetary disk evolution.
Chandra Cyg Ob2 Team
Drake Jeremy
Wright Nicholas
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