Pearls on a String: Numerous Stellar Clusters Strung Along the Same Orbit

Stars originate from the dense interstellar medium, which exhibits filamentary structure to scales of ∼1 kpc in galaxies like our Milky Way. We explore quantitatively how much resulting large-scale correlation there is among different stellar clusters and associations in orbit-phase space, character...

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Main Authors: Coronado, J. (Author), Fürnkranz, V. (Author), Rix, H.-W (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing Ltd 2022
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