Abstract
We present 3-dimensional kinematical observations of the massive OB association Cygnus OB2 to identify the mechanisms responsible for disrupting young star clusters. The picture revealed by these observations is of a highlysubstructured, dynamically unmixed OB association that does not exhibit the position–velocity correlations predicted by the theories of infant mortality or tidal stripping. These observations would appear to support a picture of hierarchical star formation.
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Wright, N. J., Bouy, H., Drake, J. J., Drew, J. E., Guarcello, M., & Navacués, D. B. Y. (2014). The dynamics of an expanding OB association. In Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings (Vol. 36, pp. 465–469). Kluwer Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_92
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