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Multiple bursts of star formation in young star clusters: The case of the Orion Nebula Cluster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Tereza Jerabkova Open the ORCID record for Tereza Jerabkova [Opens in a new window]
Tereza Jerabkova*
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European Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2, 85748 Garching bei München e-mail: tjerabkova@gmail.com Helmholtz Institut für Strahlen und Kernphysik, Universität Bonn, Nussallee 14-16, 53115 Bonn, Germany Astronomical Institute, Charles University in Prague, V Holešovičkách 2, CZ-180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic
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Abstract

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Young star clusters (YSCs) with resolved stellar populations are well suited for studying star-cluster formation. In most cases, the (pre-main-sequence) stellar populations found in the YSCs are coeval with an intrinsic age spread of up to 1Myr. Such observations can be understood as the YSCs having formed in one burst, which star formation was truncated by stellar feedback. The recent discovery that the colour-magnitude diagram of the Orion Nebula Clusters (ONC) contains three well defined age-separated populations appears to shatter this model. The implication is that the ONC formed in three bursts, with star formation still on-going in the last burst. We present new observational results focusing on the three populations in the ONC using OmegaCAM photometry and Gaia DR2 measurements. We also describe a theoretical model which may explain these observations by an interplay between stellar feedback and cluster dynamics.

Keywords

Star formationpre-main sequence starsOpen clusters and associations: ONC
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 14 , Symposium S351: Star Clusters: From the Milky Way to the Early Universe , May 2019 , pp. 200 - 203
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© International Astronomical Union 2020

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