Ogura, Katsuo ; Chauhan, Neelam ; Pandey, Anil K. ; Bhatt, Bhuwan C. ; Ojha, Devendra ; Itoh, Yoichi (2007) Age sequence in small clusters associated with bright-rimmed clouds Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 59 (1). pp. 199-204. ISSN 0004-6264
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Official URL: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/article/59/1/199/144...
Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pasj/59.1.199
Abstract
Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) found in HII regions are probable sites of triggered star formation due to compression by ionization/shock fronts, and it is hypothesized that star formation proceeds from the exciting star(s) side outward of the HII region ("small-scale sequential star formation"). In order to quantitatively test this hypothesis we undertook B V Ic photometry of four BRC aggregates. The amounts of interstellar extinction and reddening for each star were estimated by using J H Ks photometry. We then constructed reddening-corrected V/V−Ic color-magnitude diagrams, where the age of each star was derived. All of the stars turned out to be a few tenths to a few Myr old. Although the scatters were large and the numbers of the sample stars are small, we found a clear trend that the stars inside or in the immediate vicinity of the bright rim are younger than those outside it in all four aggregates, confirming the hypothesis in question.
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Keywords: | Open Clusters And Associations: General; ISM: Bubbles; HII Regions; Stars: Formation; Stars: Pre-Main Sequence |
ID Code: | 104572 |
Deposited On: | 27 Apr 2017 16:58 |
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