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Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI

Part of: IAU Issue 315 - From Interstellar Clouds...

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2016

Jacob Ward ,
Joana Oliveira ,
Jacco van Loon  and
Marta Sewilo
Jacob Ward
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, ST5 5BG, UK email: j.l.ward@keele.ac.uk
Joana Oliveira
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, ST5 5BG, UK email: j.l.ward@keele.ac.uk
Jacco van Loon
Affiliation:
Faculty of Natural Sciences, Keele University, ST5 5BG, UK email: j.l.ward@keele.ac.uk
Marta Sewilo
Affiliation:
Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO 80301, USA
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Abstract

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At distances of ~50 kpc and ~60 kpc for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) respectively the Magellanic Clouds present us with a unique opportunity to study star formation in environments outside our own galaxy. Through Spitzer and Herschel photometry and spectroscopy, samples of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) have been selected and spectroscpically confirmed in the Magellanic Clouds. Here we present some of the key results of our SINFONI K-band observations towards massive YSOs in the Magellanic Clouds. We resolve a number of Spitzer sources into multiple, previously unresolved, components and our analysis of emission lines suggest higher accretion rates and different disc properties compared with massive YSOs in the Milky Way.

Keywords

stars: formationMagellanic Cloudscircumstellar matterinfrared: stars
Type
Poster Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , Symposium S315: From Interstellar Clouds to Star-Forming Galaxies: Universal Processes? , August 2015 , E81
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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