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Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010 Young massive clusters are dense aggregates of young stars that form the fundamental building blocks of galaxies. Several examples exist in the Milky Way Galaxy and the Local Group, but they are particularly abundant in starburst and interacting galaxies.
Simon Portegies Zwart, Mark Gieles
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A cosmic-ray loaded nascent outflow driven by a massive star cluster [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCosmic rays are widely held to drive outflows from star-forming galaxies and profoundly influence galaxy evolution. Direct evidence for cosmic-ray carrying outflows is however lacking.
Marianne Lemoine-Goumard +8 more
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The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2023 A primary new capability of JWST is the ability to penetrate the dust in star-forming galaxies to identify and study the properties of young star clusters that remain embedded in dust and gas. In this Letter we combine new infrared images taken with JWST
Bradley C. Whitmore +30 more
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A Tale of Three Dwarfs: No Extreme Cluster Formation in Extreme Star-forming Galaxies
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Nearly all current simulations predict that outcomes of the star formation process, such as the fraction of stars that form in bound clusters (Γ), depend on the intensity of star formation activity (Σ _SFR ) in the host galaxy.
Rupali Chandar +10 more
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RELICS: Small-scale Star Formation in Lensed Galaxies at z = 6–10
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Detailed observations of star-forming galaxies at high redshift are critical to understanding the formation and evolution of the earliest galaxies. Gravitational lensing provides an important boost, allowing observations at physical scales unreachable in
Brian Welch +15 more
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Early-forming Massive Stars Suppress Star Formation and Hierarchical Cluster Assembly
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 Feedback from massive stars plays an important role in the formation of star clusters. Whether a very massive star is born early or late in the cluster formation timeline has profound implications for the star cluster formation and assembly processes. We
Sean C. Lewis +10 more
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X3: A High-mass Young Stellar Object Close to the Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A*
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 To date, the proposed observation of young stellar objects (YSOs) in the Galactic center still raises the question of where and how these objects could have formed due to the violent vicinity of Sgr A*.
Florian Peißker +12 more
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Gravitational waves from coalescing massive black holes in young dense clusters [PDF]
, 2006 HST observations reveal that young massive star clusters form in gas-rich environments like the Antenn{\ae} galaxy which will merge in collisional processes to form larger structures.
Amaro-Seoane, Pau
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An HST Study of the Substellar Population of NGC 2024
The Astrophysical Journal, 2023 We performed an HST/WFC3-IR imaging survey of the young stellar cluster NGC 2024 in three filters probing the 1.4 μ m H _2 O absorption feature, characteristic of the population of low-mass and substellar-mass objects down to a few Jupiter masses.
Massimo Robberto +8 more
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From the Top Down and Back Up Again: Star Cluster Structure from Hierarchical Star Formation [PDF]
, 2018 Young massive star clusters spanning $\sim 10^4 - 10^8 M_\odot$ in mass have been observed to have similar surface brightness profiles. Recent hydrodynamical simulations of star cluster formation have also produced star clusters with this structure.
Boylan-Kolchin, Michael +6 more
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