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Formation of new stellar populations from gas accreted by massive young star clusters

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  • Chengyuan Li

    (Peking University
    Key Laboratory for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Richard de Grijs

    (Peking University
    International Space Science Institute – Beijing)

  • Licai Deng

    (Key Laboratory for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Aaron M. Geller

    (Northwestern University
    University of Chicago)

  • Yu Xin

    (Key Laboratory for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Yi Hu

    (Key Laboratory for Optical Astronomy, National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

  • Claude-André Faucher-Giguère

    (Northwestern University)

Abstract

Three massive star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds show clear evidence of burst-like star formation that occurred a few hundred million years after their initial formation era; such clusters could have accreted sufficient gas to form new stars while orbiting in their host galaxies’ gaseous disks throughout the period between their initial and more recent bursts of star formation.

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  • Chengyuan Li & Richard de Grijs & Licai Deng & Aaron M. Geller & Yu Xin & Yi Hu & Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, 2016. "Formation of new stellar populations from gas accreted by massive young star clusters," Nature, Nature, vol. 529(7587), pages 502-504, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:529:y:2016:i:7587:d:10.1038_nature16493
    DOI: 10.1038/nature16493
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