Category Archives: star formation

Montage Mosaics The Pillars Of Creation!

Posted on April 30, 2015 by astrocompute

The Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (M16) remain one of the iconic images of the Hubble Space Telescope. Three pillars rise from a molecular cloud into an enormous HII region, powered by the massive young cluster NGC 6611. … Continue reading →

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Montage Used To Study The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38

Posted on October 19, 2011 by astrocompute

E. Winston et al. (2011) report that they used  Montage in their recent paper “The Structure of the Star-forming Cluster RCW 38.” This was a multiwavelength investigation that used Spitzer, Chandra and 2MASS data that probed the spatial distribution of … Continue reading →

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Montage Used To Study Molecular Outflows in W5.

Posted on June 11, 2011 by astrocompute

Ginsburg, Bally and Williams (2011) used Montage in their study of molecular outflows in the star formation complex W5, using CO 3-2 data made with the HARP array on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (Hawaii).  As part of their analysis, … Continue reading →

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Discovering T Tauri Candidates Using The INT Photometric H-Alpha Survey (IPHAS)

Posted on April 1, 2011 by astrocompute

Barentsen et al (2011) have recently shown to use the images produced by the Isaac Newton Telescope  Photometric H-Alpha Survey to identify new T Tauri stars and to estimate their accretion rates. Specifically, they studied a region of size 7 … Continue reading →

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