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Giant Molecular Clouds and Cluster Formation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Mónica Rubio*
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile

Abstract

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We will review the present knowledge of molecular cloud properties and its relation to star formation. We will discuss the evidence for cluster formation associated with giant molecular clouds, and will concentrate on recent results in our Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds.

Type
Part 4. Star Cluster Formation and Evolution: Theory and Observation
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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