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Originally Posted by Weltevreden SA
*Robert, were you citing Brandner's 2012 paper or the 2010 paper? |
Actually, the relevant section of my post was citing a 2010 paper by B.Rochau et al., which includes Wolfgang Brandner as one of its authors. But this section was not written by me!, so its inaccuracies are due to the fact that it is a press release from MPIA ( which I believe is Brandner's institution.)
The 2012 paper you mention looks very interesting, as the formation of these very massive clusters is so poorly understood; the theorists virtually could not get one of these clusters to form in their simulations, due to the drastic effects of stellar winds and photon pressure from multiple OB stars.
"Just for fun", here is a picture of NGC 3603 taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and its ACS/WFC instrument, displayed here in a reduced-resolution version. It was taken with the F435W and F550M and F850LP filters, which correspond approximately to the B and V and SDSS z bandpasses.
(display coding is B + V + I = blue+green+red)
