A Long Look at M17: Tapping the Treasury of a Nearby Rich Star Forming Region

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Sep 2005

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Chandra Proposal ID #07200065

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Chandra Proposal Id #07200065

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We propose to use an ACIS-I pointing centered on the young, dense, massive OB cluster NGC 6618 in M17 (the Omega Nebula) as a testbed for understanding recent and ongoing star formation in the M17 star-forming complex. Our goals are: to untangle the relative contributions to the X-ray emission from high mass vs. intermediate/low mass stars, embedded vs. unobscured stars, and stars vs. diffuse shock emission from OB winds, to study X-rays from stars associated with embedded stellar clusters, and to examine the relationship between the X-ray luminosity function (XLF) in this high-mass complex to the XLF in the closer, less powerful Orion Nebula Cluster, recently established by a long Chandra exposure. This is the GTO contribution to a joint GTO+GO, 400-ksec observation of M17.

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