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Watching the Birth of Super Star Clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 September 2016

Jean L. Turner  and
Sara C. Beck
Jean L. Turner
Affiliation:
Division of Astronomy and Astrophysics, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1562 USA
Sara C. Beck
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel

Abstract

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Subarcsecond infrared and radio observations yield important information about the formation of super star clusters from their surrounding gas. We discuss the general properties of ionized and molecular gas near young, forming SSCs, as illustrated by the prototypical young, forming super star cluster nebula in the dwarf galaxy NGC 5253. This super star cluster appears to have a gravitationally bound nebula, and the lack of molecular gas suggests a very high star formation efficiency, consistent with the formation of a large, bound cluster.

Type
Part 3: Extra-Galactic Star Formation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 221: Star Formation at High Angular Resolution , 2004 , pp. 125 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2004 

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