Hierarchical Star Formation from the Time-Space Distribution of Star Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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1998-05-19

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805259v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.299:588-594,1998

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01819.x

The average age difference between pairs of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Clouds increases with their separation as the ~0.35 power. This suggests that star formation is hierarchical in space and time. Small regions form stars quickly and large regions, which often contain the small regions, form stars over a longer period. A similar result found previously for Cepheid variables is statistically less certain than the cluster result.

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