Mass segregation of embedded clusters in the Milky Way

• 作 者: Xin-Yue Er Zhi-Bo Jiang Yan-Ni
• 机 构: PurpleMountainObservatory,GraduateUniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences
• 出 处: 天文和天体物理学研究：英文版
• 发表日期: 2013年3期
• 关键词: 显示质量 银河系 星团 嵌埋 动力学演化 大质量恒星 早期阶段 恒星形成 open clusters and associations： general --
• 基金项目: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.Acknowledgements We are grateful to Richard de Grijs, M. B. N. Kouwenhoven, and Christoph Olczak for their discussions and suggestions. Th

Embedded clusters are ideal laboratories for understanding the early phase of the dynamical evolution of clusters as well as massive star formation. An interesting observational phenomenon is that some of the embedded clusters show mass segregation, i.e.,