Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010iaus..266..190d&link_type=abstract
Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IA
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Stars: Pre–Main-Sequence, Open Clusters And Associations: General, X-Rays: Stars
Scientific paper
In the last few years, X-ray observational studies of young star clusters have advanced significantly, mainly thanks to the great capabilities of current X-ray observatories such as Chandra and XMM/Newton. In addition to enabling a detailed study of coronae of individual bright stars, high-spatial-resolution X-ray observations of many young clusters and star-forming regions, even massive and distant ones, have led to the detection of large populations of X-ray-bright members, often down to subsolar masses, and despite strong absorption. The peculiar ability of X-ray emission to select young, low-mass cluster stars against a crowded Galactic-plane field-star background has permitted better studies of global cluster properties, with respect to optical/infrared studies alone, including of cluster initial mass functions (across wide mass ranges), star-formation histories (with indication of age spreads—or even sequences—in many clusters) and morphologies (various degrees of symmetry and dynamical relaxation), sometimes with evidence of mass segregation. Also, the complementary availability of X-ray and optical/infrared data has enabled to place constraints on lifetimes and depletion mechanisms of pre-main-sequence circumstellar disks.
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