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Guarcello, M. G.; Drake, J. J.; Wright, N. J.; Drew, J. E.; Gutermuth, R. A.; Hora, J. L.; Naylor, T.; Aldcroft, T.; Fruscione, A.; García-Alvarez, D.; Kashyap, V. L.; King, R.
Bibliographical reference
The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 773, Issue 2, article id. 135, 24 pp. (2013).
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The formation of stars in massive clusters is one of the main modes of
the star formation process. However, the study of massive star-forming
regions is hampered by their typically large distances to the Sun. One
exception to this is the massive star-forming region Cygnus OB2 in the
Cygnus X region, at the distance of ~1400 pc. Cygnus OB2 hosts very rich
populations of massive and low-mass stars, being the best target in our
Galaxy to study the formation of stars, circumstellar disks, and planets
in the presence of massive stars. In this paper, we combine a wide and
deep set of photometric data, from the r band to 24 μm, in order to
select the disk-bearing population of stars in Cygnus OB2 and identify
the class I, class II, and stars with transition and pre-transition
disks. We selected 1843 sources with infrared excesses in an area of
1° × 1° centered on Cyg OB2 in several evolutionary
stages: 8.4% class I, 13.1% flat-spectrum sources, 72.9% class II, 2.3%
pre-transition disks, and 3.3% transition disks. The spatial
distribution of these sources shows a central cluster surrounded by an
annular overdensity and some clumps of recent star formation in the
outer region. Several candidate subclusters are identified, both along
the overdensity and in the rest of the association.
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