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How Many Star-Forming Regions are there in the Milky Way?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

L.O. Lodén
L.O. Lodén*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Observatory, Uppsala, Sweden

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There are very good reasons to believe that every stellar clustering in the Milky Way is a star-forming region or at least that every association is such a region and the minor clusterings adjacent sub-regions.

Some star-forming clusterings are still active but it seems as if a majority should be burned-out. The problem is to estimate the total number of clusterings in the present Milky Way, de-activated and disintegrated as well as active.

Type
II. Large Scale Processes of Star Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 115: Star Forming Regions , 1987 , pp. 544 - 545
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1987