Ages and Age Spreads in Young Stellar Clusters
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
2017-09-07 v1
Abstract
I review progress towards understanding the time-scales of star and cluster formation and of the absolute ages of young stars. I focus in particular on the areas in which Francesco Palla made highly significant contributions - interpretation of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams of young clusters and the role of photospheric lithium as an age diagnostic.
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@article{arxiv.1709.01736,
title = {Ages and Age Spreads in Young Stellar Clusters},
author = {R. D. Jeffries},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.01736},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
To appear in "Francesco's Legacy: Star Formation in Space and Time", Memorie della SAIt, in press. Eds. R. Cesaroni, E. Corbelli and D. Galli. 5pp