Captured older stars as the reason for apparently prolonged star formation in young star clusters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 375, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 855-860

  Pflamm Altenburg, Jan ^a,b   Kroupa, Pavel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Rhine Stellar Dynamics Network RSDN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Open clusters and associations: general; Open clusters and associations: individual: ONC; Stars: formation; Stars: kinematics

Indexed keywords

FREE FALL; OPEN CLUSTER AND ASSOCIATION: INDIVIDUAL: ONC; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATION: INDIVIDUAL; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; STAR CLUSTERS; STARS FORMATION; STARS: BE; STARS: KINEMATICS; TIME-SCALES; YOUNG STARS;

GRAVITATION;

EID: 33846974735     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11294.x     Document Type: Article

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