Massive Stars: Their Environment and Formation

Details Massive Stars: Their Environment and Formation Massive Stars: Their Environment and Formation

1999-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9907293v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Pub. Astron. Soc. of Pacific (Invited Review), 95 pages (Latex), 5 pages (tables, Latex), 11 postscript or gif figures

Scientific paper

10.1086/316416

Cloud environment is thought to play a critical role in determining the mechanism of formation of massive stars. In this contribution we review the physical characteristics of the environment around recently formed massive stars. Particular emphasis is given to recent high angular resolution observations which have improved our knowledge of the physical conditions and kinematics of compact regions of ionized gas and of dense and hot molecular cores associated with luminous O and B stars. We will show that this large body of data, gathered during the last decade, has allowed significant progress in the understanding of the physical processes that take place during the formation and early evolution of massive stars.

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