Young Star Clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Impact of Local and Global Conditions on Star Formation

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Magellanic Clouds, Galaxies: Star Clusters, Stars: Formation, Stars: Mass Function, Stars: Pre–Main-Sequence

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We compared deep images acquired with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board of the Hubble Space Telescope with mid-IR Spitzer Space Telescope images and University College London Echelle Spectrograph spectra of NGC 346 and NGC 602, two of the youngest star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Our multi-wavelength approach allowed us to infer very different origins for the clusters: while NGC 346 is likely the result of the hierarchical collapse of a giant molecular cloud, NGC 602 is probably the result of the collision and consequent interaction of two H I shells of gas.

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