J/ApJ/858/31 VMC survey. XXIX. Star formation in the SMC (Sun+, 2018)
The VMC survey.
XXIX. Turbulence-controlled hierarchical star formation in the
Small Magellanic Cloud.
Sun N.-C., de Grijs R., Cioni M.-R.L., Rubele S., Subramanian S.,
van Loon J.T., Bekki K., Bell C.P.M., Ivanov V.D., Marconi M., Muraveva T.,
Oliveira J.M., Ripepi V.
<Astrophys. J., 858, 31 (2018)>
=2018ApJ...858...31S 2018ApJ...858...31S
ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds; YSOs; Infrared sources
Keywords: galaxies: star clusters: general; infrared: stars; Magellanic Clouds;
stars: formation
Abstract:
In this paper we report a clustering analysis of upper main-sequence
stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, using data from the VMC survey
(the VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic system). Young
stellar structures are identified as surface overdensities on a range
of significance levels. They are found to be organized in a
hierarchical pattern, such that larger structures at lower
significance levels contain smaller ones at higher significance
levels. They have very irregular morphologies, with a perimeter-area
dimension of 1.44±0.02 for their projected boundaries. They have a
power-law mass-size relation, power-law size/mass distributions, and a
log-normal surface density distribution. We derive a projected fractal
dimension of 1.48±0.03 from the mass-size relation, or of 1.4±0.1
from the size distribution, reflecting significant lumpiness of the
young stellar structures. These properties are remarkably similar to
those of a turbulent interstellar medium, supporting a scenario of
hierarchical star formation regulated by supersonic turbulence.
Description:
Data used in this work come from the VMC survey, which is carried out
with the VISTA telescope. We refer to Cioni+ (2011, II/351) for a
comprehensive description of the VMC survey. The data are retrieved
from the VISTA Science Archive.
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table1.dat 43 566 Identified young stellar structures
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See also:
II/351 : VISTA Magellanic Survey (VMC) catalog (Cioni+, 2011)
J/AcA/48/175 : OGLE LMC clusters (Pietrzynski+ 1998)
J/ApJ/561/727 : BVI photometry in the Antennae galaxies (Zhang+, 2001)
J/AJ/123/855 : Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: SMC (Zaritsky+, 2002)
J/AJ/128/1606 : Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: LMC (Zaritsky+, 2004)
J/MNRAS/389/678 : Cat. of extended objects in Magellanic Clouds (Bica+, 2008)
J/MNRAS/403/996 : Clusters and associations in SMC and LMC (Bonatto+, 2010)
J/ApJ/723/492 : Properties of GRS molecular clouds (Roman-Duval+, 2010)
J/A+A/554/A33 : VMC Survey. VII. 30 Doradus reddening map (Tatton+, 2013)
J/MNRAS/442/1680 : Red giants in SMC. Abundances (Dobbie+, 2014)
J/ApJ/787/107 : Spatial structure of young stellar clusters. (Kuhn+, 2014)
J/MNRAS/452/3508 : Young stellar structures in NGC 6503 (Gouliermis+, 2015)
J/MNRAS/449/639 : VMC survey. XIV. SFR in SMC (Rubele+, 2015)
J/ApJS/224/21 : VMC survey. XIX. Classical Cepheids in SMC (Ripepi+, 2016)
J/ApJ/849/149 : VMC XXVII. Young stellar structures in the LMC (Sun+, 2017)
http://horus.roe.ac.uk/vsa/ : VISTA Science Archive home page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table1.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 3 I3 --- Seq [1/566] Running sequence number for
each young stellar structure
(<[SDC2018] NNN> in Simbad)
5- 6 I2 --- level [1/15] Significance level
8- 14 F7.4 deg RAdeg [5.2/22.8] Right Ascension (J2000) (1)
16- 23 F8.4 deg DEdeg [-73.7/-70.6] Declination (J2000) (1)
25- 30 F6.1 pc Rad [2.8/1046.2] Size, radius
32- 36 I5 --- N* [5/31487] Stellar number
38- 43 F6.4 pc-2 sigma [0.004/0.5] Surface density
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Note (1): The right ascension and declination of the center of each young
stellar structure, defined as RAdeg=(RAdeg-min+RAdeg-max)/2, where
RAdegmin and RAdegmax are the minimum and maximum right ascension of the
iso-density contour of each structure, respectively.
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(End) Prepared by [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 15-Mar-2019