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Brighten Jiang

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Star clusters are being observed with increasing detail in galaxies, but understanding how they form is still a puzzle. A specific type of cluster consisting of young and massive stars is called young massive clusters (YMCs). These regions are of interest because they could be a progenitor for other types of stellar clusters (ex. globular clusters), so understanding how YMCs form may shed light on other types of cluster formation. The region my project looked at is G0.253+0.016, a region of high mass and density, yet shows little to no star formation. Despite having the mass to form a YMC, the future of the region is still uncertain. Many of its internal processes are not known and it's in a particularly extreme region of the Milky Way. In-depth studies of the region could reveal the conditions through which a high-mass cluster is formed. I use data collected from the EMIR spectrograph to classify 13 sources within the region. After reducing the raw data, I analyze it to measure properties of the stars. Using specific absorption lines, I was able to tell what type of star each object is and whether the star is

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University of Florida / Brighten Jiang, Alyssa Bulatek, Adam Ginsburg / 2023

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Brighten Jiang