Molecular clouds toward rcw49 and westerlund 2: Evidence for cluster formation triggered by cloud-cloud collision

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 2 PART 2, 2009, Pages

  Furukawa, N ^a   Dawson, J R ^a,b   Ohama, A ^a   Kawamura, A ^a   Mizuno, N ^a   Onishi, T ^a   Fukui, Y ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hii regions; ISM: clouds; ISM: individual (RCW 49); Open clusters and associations: individual (Westerlund 2)

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EID: 67649695518     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/L115     Document Type: Article

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