A tale of two cores: triggered massive star formation in the bright-rimmed cloud SFO 75

2007/03/16 by J. S. Urquhart, M. A. Thompson, L. K. Morgan +3 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy and Astrophysical Research #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Cloud computing #Molecular cloud #Protostar #Star (game theory) #Star formation #Stellar evolution #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20077236

15 pages, 8 figures, some figures have been compressed, an uncompressed version of the paper is available upon request from the lead author. Accepted for publication in A&A

arxiv created 2007/03/16 · openalex publication_date 2007/03/19 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Context.Bright-rimmed clouds (BRCs) are isolated molecular clouds located on the edges of evolved HII regions. Star formation within the BRCs may have been triggered through the propagation of photoionisation-induced shocks driven by the expansion of the HII region.

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