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Register a new userFormation scenarios for the young stellar associations between galactic longitudes l = 280-360 deg
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Marilia J. Sartori
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We investigate the spatial distribution, the space velocities and age distribution of the pre-main sequence (PMS) stars belonging to Ophiuchus, Lupus and Chamaeleon star-forming regions (SFRs), and of the young early-type star members of the Scorpius-Centaurus OB association. These young stellar associations extend over the galactic longitude range from 280 deg. to 360 deg., and are at a distance interval of around 100 and 200 pc. This study is based on a compilation of distances, proper motions and radial velocities from the literature for the kinematic properties, and of basic stellar data for the construction of Hertzsprung-Russel diagrams. Although there was no well-known OB association in Chamaeleon, the distances and the proper motions of a group of 21 B- and A-type stars, taken from the Hipparcos Catalogue, lead us to propose that they form a young association. We show that the young early-type stars of the OB associations and the PMS stars of the SFRs follow a similar spatial distribution, i.e., there is no separation between the low and the high-mass young stars. We find no difference in the kinematics nor in the ages of these two populations studied. We analyze the different scenarios for the triggering of large-scale star-formation that have been proposed up to now, and argue that most probably we are observing a spiral arm that passes close to the Sun. The alignment of young stars and molecular clouds and the average velocity of the stars in the opposite direction to the Galactic rotation agree with the expected behavior of star formation in nearby spiral arms.
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