Table · dataset · 2016
Young and embedded clusters in Cygnus-X
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We provide a new view on the Cygnus-X north complex by accessing for the first time the low mass content of young stellar populations in the region.
Description
CFHT/WIRCam camera was used to perform a deep near-IR survey of this complex, sampling stellar masses down to ~0.1M_{sun}_. Several analysis tools, including a extinction treatment developed in this work, were employed to identify and uniformly characterise a dozen unstudied young star clusters in the area.
Investigation of their mass distributions in low-mass domain revealed a relatively uniform log-normal IMF with a characteristic mass of 0.32+/-0.08M_{sun}_ and mass dispersion of 0.40+/-0.06. In the high mass regime, their derived slopes showed that while the youngest clusters (age<4Myr) presented slightly shallower values with respect to the Salpeter's, our older clusters (4Myr<age<18Myr) showed IMF compliant values and a slightly denser stellar population.
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Although possibly evidencing a deviation from an 'universal' IMF, these results also supports a scenario where these gas dominated young clusters gradually 'build up' their IMF by accreting low-mass stars formed in their vicinity during their first ~3Myr, before the gas expulsion phase, emerging at the age of ~4Myr with a fully fledged IMF. Finally, the derived distances to these clusters confirmed the existence of at least 3 different star forming regions throughout Cygnus-X north complex, at distances of 500-900pc, 1.4-1.7kpc and 3.0kpc, and revealed evidence of a possible interaction between some of these stellar populations and the Cygnus-OB2 association.
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Where it is published
- Reference page cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/458/3027 ↗
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Documentation and papers
- ADS 2016MNRAS.458.3027M ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.458.3027M ↗
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Catalogue records · 2
- VOResource record dc.g-vo.org/oai.xml?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=ivo_vor&identifier=ivo%3… ↗
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- Registry record (GAVO) dc.g-vo.org/I/cds.vizier/j/mnras/458/3027 ↗
catalogue entry · from IVOA Registry
Topics
- Stated by source
- Infrared
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics
Provenance · 1 source records, 8 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
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| IVOA Registry (Virtual Observatory) | ivo://cds.vizier/j/mnras/458/3027 | 11 d ago | JSON v1 |
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| access_level | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].ivoa_waveband:infrared | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_description |
| license_text | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | |
| title | source · IVOA Registry | connector:ivoa_registry@1.0.0 | rr.resource.res_title |
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