High-Mass Star and Massive Cluster Formation in the Milky Way
By Fr'ed'erique Motte, S. Bontemps, F. Louvet. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2017
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This review examines the state-of-the-art knowledge of high-mass star and massive cluster formation, gained from ambitious observational surveys, which acknowledges the multiscale characteristics of these processes. After a brief overview of theoretical models and main open issues, we present observational searches for the evolutionary phases of high-mass star formation, first among high-luminosity sources and more recently among young massive protostars and the elusive high-mass prestellar cores. We then introduce the most likely evolutionary scenario for high-mass star formation, which emphasizes the link of high-mass star formation to massive cloud and cluster formation. Finally, we introduce the first attempts to search for variations of the star-formation activity and cluster formation in molecular cloud complexes in the most extreme star-forming sites and across the Milky Way. The combination of Galactic plane surveys and high–angular resolution images with submillimeter facilities such as Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) are prerequisites to make significant progress in the forthcoming decade.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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- Global hierarchical collapse in molecular clouds. Towards a comprehensive scenario (2019, background): “Observational works performing detailed comparisons at the structural level of clouds and clusters have also reported qualitative and quantitative agreement (e.g., Motte et al. 2018; Getman et al. 2018, 2019; Chen et al. 2019) with the GHC scenario.”
- An ALMA study of the Orion Integral Filament: I. Evidence for narrow fibers in a massive cloud (2018, background): “As a result, the connection between low- and high-mass filaments remains controversial (e.g., see André et al. 2014; Motte et al. 2017).”