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Star formation in NGC 3603

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Mauricio Tapia  and
Brenda Pérez
Mauricio Tapia
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico
Brenda Pérez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomía, UNAM, Ensenada, B.C., Mexico

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NGC 3603 is the most massive optically visible H II region in our Galaxy and is considered to be the Galactic analogue to 30 Doradus and, thus, a prototype of the starburst phenomenon. Its core, known as WR 43 (HD 97950), contains several dozens of O-B0 stars within 35″. These have been studied with very high resolution in the optical and near-IR. Melnick, Tapia & Terlevich (1989) concluded that the starburst cluster has an age spread of 1 to 2 Myr and that its boundaries extend to ∼60″, while Eisenhauer et al. (1998) determined that the lower mass stars in the core are younger than 1 Myr.

Type
Part 4. Wolf-Rayet stars and other hot massive stars in the Galactic Center and in Local Group giant H II regions (individual stars)
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 193: Wolf-Rayet Phenomena in Massive Stars and Starburst Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 499 - 500
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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