A Hubble View of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds
Abstract
The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer an outstanding variety of young stellar associations, in which large samples of low-mass stars (with masses less than 1 solar mass) currently in the act of formation can be resolved and explored sufficiently with the Hubble Space Telescope. These pre-main sequence (PMS) stars provide a unique snapshot of the star formation process, as it is being recorded for the last 20 Myr, and they give important information on the low-mass Initial Mass Function (IMF) of their host environments. We present the latest results from observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) of such star-forming regions in the MCs, and discuss the importance of Hubble}for a comprehensive collection of substantial information on the most recent low-mass star formation and the low-mass IMF in the MCs.
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@article{arxiv.0706.0620,
title = {A Hubble View of Star Forming Regions in the Magellanic Clouds},
author = {D. A. Gouliermis and Th. Henning and W. Brandner and M. R. Rosa and A. E. Dolphin and M. Schmalzl and E. Hennekemper and H. Zinnecker and N. Panagia and Y. -H. Chu and B. Brandl and S. P. Quanz and M. Robberto and G. De Marchi and R. A. Gruendl and M. Romaniello},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.0620},
year = {2012}
}
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To appear in the proceedings of the 41st ESLAB Symposium: The Impact of HST on European Astronomy, 4 pages, LaTeX ESA Publications style, 5 Figures