Using young massive star clusters to understand star formation and feedback in high-redshift-like environments
Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The formation environment of stars in massive stellar clusters is similar to the environment of stars forming in galaxies at a redshift of 1 - 3, at the peak star formation rate density of the Universe. As massive clusters are still forming at the present day at a fraction of the distance to high-redshift galaxies they offer an opportunity to understand the processes controlling star formation and feedback in conditions similar to those in which most stars in the Universe formed. Here we describe a system of massive clusters and their progenitor gas clouds in the centre of the Milky Way, and outline how detailed observations of this system may be able to: (i) help answer some of the fundamental open questions in star formation and (ii) quantify how stellar feedback couples to the surrounding interstellar medium in this high-pressure, high-redshift analogue environment.
Source: Liverpool John Moores University
Institutions: Liverpool John Moores University, Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Heidelberg University, Excellence Cluster Universe, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Astronomy and Space, European Southern Observatory, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, EDP Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3100960353