Unveiling the Cygnus OB2 stellar population with Chandra

2006/10/12 by J. F. Albacete-Colombo, J. F. Albacete Colombo, E. Flaccomio +3 · 4 citations
Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Medicine #Physics #Population #Star (game theory) #Star formation #Stars #Stellar mass #Stellar population #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20066101

Accepted for publication in A&A. 20 pages, 17 figures

arxiv created 2006/10/12 · openalex publication_date 2006/11/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Aims.The aim of this work is to identify the so far unknown low mass stellar population of the ~2 Myr old Cygnus OB2 star forming region, and to investigate the X-ray and near-IR stellar properties of its members.

Citations

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