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arxiv: 1208.0211 · v1 · pith:COY5EHZFnew · submitted 2012-08-01 · 🌌 astro-ph.SR

The Dynamics of an Expanding OB Association

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keywords associationobservationspicturestarappearclusterscorrelationscygnus
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We present 3-dimensional kinematical observations of the massive OB association Cygnus OB2 to identify the mechanisms responsible for disrupting young star clusters. The picture revealed by these observations is of a highly-substructured, dynamically unmixed OB association that does not exhibit the position-velocity correlations predicted by the theories of infant mortality or tidal stripping. These observations would appear to support a picture of hierarchical star formation.

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