2007/06/05 by Dimitrios A. Gouliermis, D. A. Gouliermis, Th. Henning +22
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Camera for Surveys #Astronomy #Astrophysics #Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies #Computer science #Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena #Hubble space telescope #Initial mass function #Low Mass #Physics #Snapshot (computer storage) #Star (game theory) #Star formation #Stars #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3400-7_14
To appear in the proceedings of the 41st ESLAB Symposium: The Impact of HST on European Astronomy, 4 pages, LaTeX ESA Publications style, 5 Figures
arxiv created 2007/06/05 · openalex publication_date 2009/12/18 · arxiv updated 2012/07/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer an outstanding variety of young stellar associations, in which large samples of low-mass stars (with masses less than 1 solar mass) currently in the act of formation can be resolved and explored sufficiently with the Hubble Space Telescope. These pre-main sequence (PMS) stars provide a unique snapshot of the star formation process, as it is being recorded for the last 20 Myr, and they give important information on the low-mass Initial Mass Function (IMF) of their host environments. We present the latest results from observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) of such star-forming regions in the MCs, and discuss the importance of Hubblefor a comprehensive collection of substantial information on the most recent low-mass star formation and the low-mass IMF in the MCs.