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We investigate the physical conditions of the CO gas near the young star cluster, Trumpler 14 of the Carina Nebula. The observations presented in this work are taken with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer (FTS) of the Spectral and…

We have carried out near-infrared (NIR) imaging observations of the Carina Nebula for an area of ~400 sq. arcmin. including the star clusters Trumpler 14 (Tr 14) and Trumpler 16 (Tr 16). With 10 sigma limiting magnitudes of J ~ 18.5, H ~…

Most massive stars belong to multiple systems, yet the formation process leading to such high multiplicity remains insufficiently understood. To help constrain the different formation scenarios that exist, insights on the low-mass end of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-14 Alan Rainot , Maddalena Reggiani , Hugues Sana , Julia Bodensteiner , Olivier Absil

The Carina Nebula is an extremely bright southern HII region embedded in a giant molecular cloud and contains some of the most massive stars known in our Galaxy. We are undertaking a multi-wavelength study of the Carina Nebula in order to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 K. J. Brooks , J. B. Whiteoak , J. W. V. Storey

We have obtained wide-field thermal infrared (IR) images of the Carina Nebula, using the SPIREX/Abu telescope at the South Pole. Emission from poly-cyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) at 3.29um, a tracer of photodissociation regions (PDRs),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. Rathborne , M. G. Burton , K. J. Brooks , M. Cohen , M. C. B. Ashley , J. W. V. Storey

We have mapped the G287.84-0.82 cometary globule (with the Treasure Chest cluster embedded in it) in the South Pillars region of Carina (i) in [CII], 63micron [OI], and CO(11-10) using upGREAT on SOFIA and (ii) in J=2-1 transitions of CO,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-26 B. Mookerjea , G. Sandell , R. Guesten , D. Riquelme , H. Wiesemeyer , E. Chambers

We present ALMA observations of the continuum and line emission of $^{12}$CO, $^{13}$CO, C$^{18}$O, and [C I] for a portion of the G287.38-0.62 (Car 1-E) region in the Carina star-forming complex. The new data record how a molecular cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-30 Patrick Hartigan , Maxwell Hummel , Andrea Isella , Turlough Downes

We present the first extensive spectroscopic study of the global population in star clusters Trumpler~16, Trumpler~14 and Collinder~232 in the Carina Nebula, using data from the Gaia-ESO Survey, down to solar-mass stars. In addition to the…

The new census of massive stars in the Carina nebula reveals the presence of 54 apparently single O-type stars in the Car OB1 association, an extremely active star-forming region which hosts some of the most luminous stars of the Milky Way.…

Using offset-corrected Gaia-EDR3 parallax measurements and spectrophotometric methods, we have determined distances for 69 massive stars in the Carina OB1 association and associated clusters: Trumpler 16 (21 stars), Trumpler 14 (20 stars),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Michael Shull , Jeremy Darling , Charles Danforth

We present results from observations of H110alpha recombination-line emission at 4.874 GHz and the related 4.8-GHz continuum emission towards the Carina Nebula using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. These data provide information on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 K. J. Brooks , J. W. V. Storey , J. B. Whiteoak

We present observations from the Gaia-ESO Survey in the lines of H$\alpha$, [N II], [S II] and He I of nebular emission in the central part of the Carina Nebula. We investigate the properties of the two already known kinematic components…

The Carina nebula hosts a large number of globulettes. The majority are of planetary mass, but there are also those with masses of several tens up to a few hundred Jupiter masses. We carried out radio observations of molecular line emission…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-14 Lauri Haikala , Gösta Gahm , Tiia Grenman , Minja Mäkelä , Carina Persson

The S254-258 star-forming complex is a place of massive star formation where five OB-stars have created HII regions, visible as optical nebulae, and disrupted the parental molecular gas. In this work, we study the 3D structure of these \HII…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-02-14 Maria S. Kirsanova , Alexei V. Moiseev , Paul A. Boley

We analyze the distribution of the interstellar matter in the environs of the HII region Gum31, excited by the open cluster NGC3324, located in the complex Carina region, with the aim of investigating the action of the massive stars on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Cappa , V. S. Niemela , R. Amorin , J. Vasquez

We present large area, fully-sampled maps of the Carina molecular cloud complex in the CO (J = 4 - 3) and neutral carbon [CI] 3P1 - 3P0 transitions. These data were obtained using the 1.7 meter diameter Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Xiaolei Zhang , Youngung Lee , Alberto Bolatto , Antony A. Stark

The southern Galactic high mass star-forming region, G351.6-1.3, is a HII region-molecular cloud complex with a luminosity of 2.0 x 10^5 L_sun, located at a distance of 2.4 kpc. In this paper, we focus on the investigation of the associated…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 S. Vig , S. K. Ghosh , D. K. Ojha , R. P. Verma , M. Tamura

We present multiwavelength investigation of morphology, physical-environment, stellar contents and star formation activity in the vicinity of star-forming region Sh 2-100. It is found that the Sh 2-100 region contains seven HII regions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 M. R. Samal , A. K. Pandey , D. K. Ojha , S. K. Ghosh , V. K. Kulkarni , N. Kusakabe , M. Tamura , B. C. Bhatt , M. A. Thompson , R. Sagar

The Palomar Integral Field Spectrograph was used to probe a variety of environments in nine nearby galaxies that span a range of morphological types, luminosities, metallicities, and infrared-to-blue ratios. For the first time,…

We present adaptive optics (AO) near-infrared observations of the core of the Tr 14 cluster in the Carina region obtained with the ESO multi-conjugate AO demonstrator, MAD. Our campaign yields AO-corrected observations with an image quality…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Sana , Y. Momany , M. Gieles , G. Carraro , Y. Beletsky , V. D. Ivanov , G. De Silva , G. James
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