Star Formation and Young Clusters in Cygnus

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Dec 2008

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Handbook of Star Forming Regions, Volume I: The Northern Sky ASP Monograph Publications, Vol. 4. Edited by Bo Reipurth, p.36

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The Great Cygnus Rift harbors numerous very active regions of current or recent star formation. In this part of the sky we look down a spiral arm, s= o regions from only a few hundred pc to several kpc are superposed. The North America and Pelican nebulae, parts of a single giant HII region, are the best known of the Cygnus regions of star formation and are located at a distance of only about 600 pc. Adjacent, but at a distance of about 1.7 kpc, is the Cygnus X region, a ˜10° complex of actively star forming molecular clouds and young clusters. The most massive of these clusters is the 3-4 Myr old Cyg OB2 association, containing several thousand OB stars and akin to the young globular clusters in the LMC. The rich populations of young low and high mass stars and protostars associated with the massive cloud complexes in Cygnus are largely unexplored and deserve systematic study.

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