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Determination of kinematic distances of pre-main-sequence stars in star-forming regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

Phillip A. B. Galli ,
Ramachrisna Teixeira ,
Christine Ducourant  and
Claude Bertout
Phillip A. B. Galli
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil email: [email protected]
Ramachrisna Teixeira
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 1226, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil email: [email protected]
Christine Ducourant
Affiliation:
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux, Université de Bordeaux I, 2 Rue de l'Observatoire, 33270 Floirac, France
Claude Bertout
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, 98bis Bd. Arago, 75014, Paris, France
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Abstract

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Many studies of star-forming regions have been carried out since the discovery of compact Hii regions in the late 1960s. The kinematic properties of young stars in the nearest regions with ongoing and recent star formation provide essential tests of their formation mechanisms. The detection of coeval moving groups allows determination of individual distances through the convergent-point method. As a result, the main physical properties of these stars and their early evolutionary stages can be determined if we know how distant they are.

Keywords

stars: distancesstars: kinematicsstars: evolutionstars: formation
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 5 , Symposium S266: Star clusters: basic galactic building blocks throughout time and space , August 2009 , pp. 395 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2010

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