Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-11-04
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
18 pages, 7 figures. To appear as invited review article in a special issue of the Phil. Trans. Royal Soc. A: Ch. 2 "Star clus
Scientific paper
Stellar clusters are born in cold and dusty molecular clouds and the youngest clusters are embedded to various degrees in dusty dark molecular material. Such embedded clusters can be considered protocluster systems. The most deeply buried examples are so heavily obscured by dust that they are only visible at infrared wavelengths. These embedded protoclusters constitute the nearest laboratories for direct astronomical investigation of the physical processes of cluster formation and early evolution. I review the present state of empirical knowledge concerning embedded cluster systems and discuss the implications for understanding their formation and subsequent evolution to produce bound stellar clusters.
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