Oral Presentation
Fragmentation and massive cluster formation (Remote)
Presenter: Gemma Busquet (Departament de Física Quàntica i Astrofísica, Universitat de Barcelona)
The cutting edge of the current radio facilities, such as ALMA and the JVLA, have opened a new window for protoclusters studies thanks to their superb sensitivity and angular resolution.
In this talk I will present recent results from several observational campaigns toward the Infrared Dark Cloud G14.225-0.506, located at the southwest of the bright HII region M17, which harbours two deeply embedded protoclusters. I will also introduce the VLA Orion A Large Survey (VOLS), a VLA large program aimed at understanding the evolution of mass-accretion and mass-loss rates by mapping 0.5 deg^2 of the northern part of Orion A at two frequency bands. Orion A is the nearest star-forming complex containing a broad range of environments populated by protostars and Young Stellar Objects with different masses and evolutionary stages, representing a testbed for star formation theories.
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