NOAO > Observing Info > Approved Programs > 2005B-0427
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PI: S T Megeath, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tmegeath@cfa.harvard.edu
Address: Optical Infrared, 60 Garden St MS-65, Cambridge, MA 02451, USA
CoI: Rob Gutermuth, University of Rochester
CoI: Judy Pipher, University of Rochester
CoI: Lori Allen, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
CoI: Phil Myers, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Title: Flamingos Spectroscopy of Young Stellar Clusters: Tracing the Initial Configuration and Early Evolution
Abstract:
We are executing a combined ground-based near-IR and Spitzer mid-IR
survey of young stellar clusters within 1 kpc of the sun, to understand
the initial configuration of young stellar clusters, their dynamical
evolution as they disrupt their natal clouds, and the effect of the
cluster environment on star and planet formation. We propose here
Flamingos multislit spectra of three clusters which we are intensively
studying using near and mid-IR photometry: IRAS 20050+2720, GGD 12-15
and NGC 7129. This program will determine ages for the clusters, and
allow us to look for variations in the mass function and accretion
properties between the clusters and within the individual clusters. The
ages will have significant implications for the role clustering may play
in the tidal disruption of proto- planetary disks.
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