Comparing young massive clusters and their progenitor clouds in the Milky Way

Young massive clusters (YMCs) have central stellar mass surface densities exceeding $10^{4} M_{\odot} pc^{-2}$. It is currently unknown whether the stars formed at such high (proto)stellar densities. We compile a sample of gas clouds in the Galaxy which have sufficient gas mass within a radius of a...

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Main Authors: Walker, Daniel Lewis (Author) , Kruijssen, Diederik (Author)
Format: Article (Journal) Chapter/Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Arxiv

Online Access:Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02762
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Author Notes:D.L. Walker, S.N. Longmore, N. Bastian, J.M.D. Kruijssen, J.M. Rathborne, R. Galván-Madrid, and H.B. Liu

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