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A&A
Volume 597, January 2017
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Article Number | A114 | |
Number of page(s) | 22 | |
Section | Catalogs and data | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201629199 | |
Published online | 12 January 2017 |
Source clustering in the Hi-GAL survey determined using a minimum spanning tree method⋆,⋆⋆
1 Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, 11 rue de l’Université, 67000 Strasbourg, France
e-mail: maxime.beuret@astro.unistra.fr
2 Instituto de Radio Astronomía Milimétrica, Avenida Divina Pastora, 7, Local 20, 18012 Granada, Spain
3 Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, IC2 Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
4 INAF – Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Roma, Italy
Received: 27 June 2016
Accepted: 7 October 2016
Aims. The aims are to investigate the clustering of the far-infrared sources from the Herschel infrared Galactic Plane Survey (Hi-GAL) in the Galactic longitude range of −71 to 67 deg. These clumps, and their spatial distribution, are an imprint of the original conditions within a molecular cloud. This will produce a catalogue of over-densities.
Methods. The minimum spanning tree (MST) method was used to identify the over-densities in two dimensions. The catalogue was further refined by folding in heliocentric distances, resulting in more reliable over-densities, which are cluster candidates.
Results. We found 1633 over-densities with more than ten members. Of these, 496 are defined as cluster candidates because of the reliability of the distances, with a further 1137 potential cluster candidates. The spatial distributions of the cluster candidates are different in the first and fourth quadrants, with all clusters following the spiral structure of the Milky Way. The cluster candidates are fractal. The clump mass functions of the clustered and isolated are statistically indistinguishable from each other and are consistent with Kroupa’s initial mass function.
Key words: stars: formation / stars: luminosity function, mass function / Galaxy: structure / infrared: stars / catalogs
Hi-GAL is a key-project of the Herschel Space Observatory survey (Pilbratt et al. 2010) and uses the PACS (Poglitsch et al. 2010) and SPIRE (Griffin et al. 2010) cameras in parallel mode.
The catalogues of cluster candidates and potential clusters are only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr (130.79.128.5) or via http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/597/A114
© ESO, 2017
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