Star Clusters Near and Far: Tracing Star Formation Across Cosmic Time

A Adamo, P Zeidler, JMD Kruijssen, M Chevance… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Star clusters are fundamental units of stellar feedback and unique tracers of their host
galactic properties. In this review, we will first focus on their constituents, ie detailed insight …

Unbound young stellar systems: star formation on the loose

DA Gouliermis - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Unbound young stellar systems, the loose ensembles of physically related young bright
stars, trace the typical regions of recent star formation in galaxies. Their morphologies vary …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: A Statistical View on Bubble Evolution in NGC 628

EJ Watkins, AT Barnes, K Henny, H Kim… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The first JWST observations of nearby galaxies have unveiled a rich population of bubbles
that trace the stellar-feedback mechanisms responsible for their creation. Studying these …

LYRA–I. Simulating the multiphase ISM of a dwarf galaxy with variable energy supernovae from individual stars

TA Gutcke, R Pakmor, T Naab… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We introduce the LYRA project, a new high-resolution galaxy formation model built within
the framework of the cosmological hydrodynamical moving mesh code arepo. The model …

The spatial relation between young star clusters and molecular clouds in M51 with LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, A Adamo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a study correlating the spatial locations of young star clusters with those of
molecular clouds in NGC 5194, in order to investigate the time-scale over which clusters …

H α morphologies of star clusters in 16 LEGUS galaxies: Constraints on H ii region evolution time-scales

S Hannon, JC Lee, BC Whitmore… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The analysis of star cluster ages in tandem with the morphology of their H ii regions can
provide insight into the processes that clear a cluster's natal gas, as well as the accuracy of …

Connecting young star clusters to CO molecular gas in NGC 7793 with ALMA–LEGUS

K Grasha, D Calzetti, L Bittle… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present an investigation of the relationship between giant molecular cloud (GMC)
properties and the associated stellar clusters in the nearby flocculent galaxy NGC 7793. We …

Improving Star Cluster Age Estimates in PHANGS-HST Galaxies and the Impact on Cluster Demographics in NGC 628

BC Whitmore, R Chandar, JC Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT A long-standing problem when deriving the physical properties of stellar
populations is the degeneracy between age, reddening, and metallicity. When a single …

PHANGS–JWST First Results: A Combined HST and JWST Analysis of the Nuclear Star Cluster in NGC 628

N Hoyer, F Pinna, AWH Kamlah… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We combine archival Hubble Space Telescope and new James Webb Space
Telescope imaging data covering the ultraviolet to mid-infrared regime to morphologically …

PHANGS–HST: star cluster spectral energy distribution fitting with cigale

JA Turner, DA Dale, JC Lee, M Boquien… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The sensitivity and angular resolution of photometric surveys executed by the Hubble Space
Telescope (HST) enable studies of individual star clusters in galaxies out to a few tens of …