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Scale Free Processes in Stellar Cluster Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2016

Nate Bastian
Nate Bastian*
Affiliation:
Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK email: N.J.Bastian@ljmu.ac.uk
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Abstract

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We review some of the basic population properties of stellar clusters, as well as how they relate to star-formation more broadly within their host galaxies. Despite the common assertion, the vast majority of stars do not form within stellar clusters. For typical galaxies (including the solar neighbourhood), the fraction of stars forming in clusters is ~10%. There are indications however that this fraction increases as a function of increasing star-formation rate surface density, in agreement with model predictions (based on a turbulent ISM and relatively straight-forward prescriptions of star-formation).

Keywords

stellar clustersstar formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 11 , General Assembly A29B: Astronomy in Focus , August 2015 , pp. 717 - 718
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2016 

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