Star clusters across cosmic time

MR Krumholz, CF McKee… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Star clusters stand at the intersection of much of modern astrophysics: the ISM, gravitational
dynamics, stellar evolution, and cosmology. Here, we review observations and theoretical …

PHANGS–MUSE: The H II region luminosity function of local star-forming galaxies

F Santoro, K Kreckel, F Belfiore, B Groves… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We use an unprecedented sample of about 23 000 H II regions detected at an average
physical resolution of 67 pc in the PHANGS–MUSE sample to study the extragalactic H II …

Radii of young star clusters in nearby galaxies

G Brown, OY Gnedin - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We measure the projected half-light radii of young star clusters in 31 galaxies from the
Legacy Extragalactic UV Survey (LEGUS). We implement a custom pipeline specifically …

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 …

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 …

H α morphologies of star clusters: a LEGUS study of H ii region evolution time-scales and stochasticity in low-mass clusters

S Hannon, JC Lee, BC Whitmore… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The morphology of H ii regions around young star clusters provides insight into the time-
scales and physical processes that clear a cluster's natal gas. We study∼ 700 young …

Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey with The Hubble Space Telescope: Stellar Cluster Catalogs and First Insights Into Cluster Formation and Evolution in NGC 628∗

A Adamo, JE Ryon, M Messa, H Kim… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the large effort that is producing comprehensive high-level young star cluster
(YSC) catalogs for a significant fraction of galaxies observed with the Legacy ExtraGalactic …

PHANGS-HST: new methods for star cluster identification in nearby galaxies

DA Thilker, BC Whitmore, JC Lee… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present an innovative and widely applicable approach for the detection and
classification of stellar clusters, developed for the PHANGS-HST Treasury Program, an NUV …