The G305 star-forming complex : the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2
Davies, B., Clark, J.S., Trombley, C., Figer, D. F., Najarro, F., Crowther, P.A., Kudritzki, R.P., Thompson, M., Urquhart, J.S. and Hindson, Luke
(2012)
The G305 star-forming complex : the central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2.
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), 419 (3).
pp. 1871-1886.
ISSN 0035-8711
The G305 H ii complex (G305.4+0.1) is one of the most massive star-forming structures yet identified within the Galaxy. It is host to many massive stars at all stages of formation and evolution, from embedded molecular cores to post-main-sequence stars. Here, we present a detailed near-infrared analysis of the two central star clusters Danks 1 and Danks 2, using Hubble Space Telescope+NICMOS imaging and Very Large Telescope+ISAAC spectroscopy. We find that the spectrophotometric distance to the clusters is consistent with the kinematic distance to the G305 complex, an average of all measurements giving a distance of 3.8 ± 0.6 kpc
| Item Type | Article |
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| Keywords | ism: clouds, h ii regions, open clusters and associations: general, open clusters and associations: individual: danks 1, danks 2, stars: formation, stars: wolf-rayet |
| Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 12:20 |
| Last Modified | 30 May 2025 23:49 |
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