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The star forming region of the Orion Nebula (ONC) is ideal to study the stellar dynamics of young stars in a clustered environment. Using Gaia DR2 we search for the pre-main sequence stars with unusually high proper motions that may be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-16 Aidan McBride , Marina Kounkel

Theory predicts that we should find fast, ejected (runaway) stars of all masses around dense, young star-forming regions. $N$-body simulations show that the number and distribution of these ejected stars could be used to constrain the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-27 Christina Schoettler , Jos de Bruijne , Eero Vaher , Richard J. Parker

We use Gaia DR2 to hunt for runaway stars from the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). We search a region extending 45{\deg} around the ONC and out to 1 kpc to find sources that overlapped in angular position with the cluster in the last ~10 Myr.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 Juan P. Farias , Jonathan C. Tan , Laurent Eyer

(abridged) A scenario for the formation of multiple co-eval populations separated in age by about 1 Myr in very young clusters (VYCs, ages less than 10 Myr) and with masses in the range 600-20000 Msun is outlined. It rests upon a converging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 Pavel Kroupa , Tereza Jerabkova , František Dinnbier , Giacomo Beccari , Zhiqiang Yan

We present a catalog of high-precision proper motions in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), based on Treasury Program observations with the Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) ACS/WFC camera. Our catalog contains 2,454 objects in the magnitude…

In the first few Myr the massive stars dynamically interact, produce runaways and affect the initial binary population. Observing and interpreting the dynamics of young massive clusters is key to our understanding of the star formation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-15 Mitchel Stoop , Lex Kaper , Alex de Koter , Difeng Guo , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers , Steven Rieder

The fraction of massive stars in young stellar clusters is of importance as they are the dominant sources of both mechanical and radiative feedback, strongly influencing the thermal and dynamical state of their birth environments. It turns…

The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the nearest site of ongoing massive star formation, which allows us to study the kinematics and dynamics of the region in detail and constrain star formation theories. Using HST ACS/WFPC2/WFC3IR and Keck II…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-20 Dongwon Kim , Jessica R. Lu , Quinn Konopacky , Laurie Chu , Elizabeth Toller , Jay Anderson , Christopher A. Theissen , Mark R. Morris

The most recently formed young stellar objects (YSOs) in active star forming regions are excellent tracers of their parent cloud motion. Their positions and dynamics provide insight into cluster formation and constrain kinematic decoupling…

The spatial morphology and dynamical status of a young, still-forming stellar cluster provide valuable clues on the conditions during the star formation event and the processes that regulated it. We analyze the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC),…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Nicola Da Rio , Jonathan C. Tan , Karl Jaehnig

Recently, three stellar sequences separated in age by about 1 Myr were discovered in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC; Beccari et al. 2017). Kroupa et al. (2018) suggest that such small dense subpopulations eject all their OB stars via the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-19 Long Wang , Pavel Kroupa , Tereza Jerabkova

We present a catalog of 3354 candidate young stars within 500 pc that appear to have been ejected from their parent associations with relative speeds of >5 km/s. These candidates have been homogeneously selected through performing a 2d…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-12 Marina Kounkel , Aidan McBride , Keivan G. Stassun , Nathan Leigh

Fast, ejected stars have been found around several young star-forming regions, such as the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). These ejected stars can be used to constrain the initial density, spatial and kinematic substructure when compared to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-15 Christina Schoettler , Richard J. Parker , Jos de Bruijne

The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is an excellent example for understanding the formation of star clusters. Recent studies have shown that ONC has three distinct age populations and anisotropy in velocity dispersions, which are key…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-08 Michiko S. Fujii , Long Wang , Yutaka Hirai , Yoshito Shimajiri , Jun Kumamoto , Takayuki Saitoh

Young star clusters (YSCs) with resolved stellar populations are well suited for studying star-cluster formation. In most cases, the (pre-main-sequence) stellar populations found in the YSCs are coeval with an intrinsic age spread of up to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tereza Jerabkova

We present the kinematic analysis of $246$ stars within $4\mbox{$^\prime$}$ from the center of Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), the closest massive star cluster with active star formation across the full mass range, which provides valuable…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-05-23 Lingfeng Wei , Christopher A. Theissen , Quinn M. Konopacky , Jessica R. Lu , Chih-Chun Hsu , Dongwon Kim

The Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC) is the most massive region of active star formation within a kpc of the Sun. Using Gaia DR3 parallaxes and proper motions, we examine the bulk motions of stars radially and tangentially relative to the cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-05 Marina Kounkel , Keivan G. Stassun , Kevin Covey , Lee Hartmann

Runaway stars are OB-type stars ejected from their birthplace with large peculiar velocities. The leading hypothesis addressed in their formation includes the supernova ejection mechanism and the dynamic ejection scenario. Identification of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-09 Yanjun Guo , Luqian Wang , Chao Liu , You Wu , ZhanWen Han , XueFei Chen

Runaway stars are ejected from their place of birth in the Galactic disk, with some young B-type runaways found several tens of kiloparsecs from the plane traveling at speeds beyond the escape velocity. Young open clusters are a likely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Aakash Bhat , Andreas Irrgang , Ulrich Heber

We examine the pattern of star birth in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC), with the goal of discerning the cluster's formation mechanism. Outside of the Trapezium, the distribution of stellar masses is remarkably uniform, and is not accurately…

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