Mass segregation in young clusters: observational biases
- Author(s)
- Joana Ascenso, João Alves, Maria Teresa V. T. Lago
- Abstract
We investigate the validity of the mass-segregation indicators most commonly used in the analysis of young stellar clusters. We construct and analyze synthetic massive clusters with a standard, fully sampled stellar initial mass function and a King density distribution function.We find that the commonly used indicators are highly sensitive to the effects of incompleteness in observational data, and that completeness determinations do not provide satisfactory corrections, leading to results that may be severely biased toward mass segregation.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Universidade do Porto
- Journal
- Astrophysics and Space Science
- Volume
- 324
- Pages
- 113-119
- ISSN
- 0004-640X
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-009-0133-4
- Publication date
- 12-2009
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103004 Astrophysics
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/mass-segregation-in-young-clusters-observational-biases(4a25a5c5-1fce-4688-9091-0df90c57469d).html