The starbursts in the Milky Way
Abstract
High-mass stars are major players in the chemical and dynamical evolution of galaxies, and young massive clusters are the natural laboratories to study their evolution and their impact on star formation processes. Only in recent years have we become aware of the existence of numerous massive (M_cl > 10000M_sun) clusters in our Galaxy. Here I give a review, rather biased towards my own research interests, of the observational and theoretical efforts that have led to a description of their properties, and present an overview of the two (perhaps three) starburst regions known outside the Galactic Centre neighbourhood: the Scutum Complex, its putative counterpart on the far side of the Long Bar, and the starburst cluster Westerlund 1.
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@article{arxiv.1402.3328,
title = {The starbursts in the Milky Way},
author = {Ignacio Negueruela},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.3328},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
Invited review to appear in proceedings of "Massive Young Star Clusters Near and Far: From the Milky Way to Reionization", 2013 Guillermo Haro Conference, Eds. Y. D. Mayya, D. Rosa-Gonzalez & E. Terlevich, INAOE and AMC, Puebla (2014)