Open cluster in the constellation Vela
NGC 2547 is a southern open cluster in Vela , discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751[2] from South Africa. The star cluster is young with an age of 20-30 million years.[3]
Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope showed a shell around the B3 III/IV-type star HD 68478 . This could be a sign of recent mass loss in this star.[4]
A study using Gaia DR2 data showed that NGC 2547 formed about 30 million years ago together with a new discovered star cluster, called [BBJ2018] 6.[5] [6] The star cluster NGC 2547 has a similar age compared with Trumpler 10 , NGC 2451B , Collinder 135 and Collinder 140 . It was suggested that all these clusters formed in a single event of triggered star formation .[7]
NGC 2547 shows evidence for mass segregation down to 3 M ☉ .[8]
^ a b c d Bravi, L.; Zari, E.; Sacco, G. G.; Randich, S.; Jeffries, R. D.; Jackson, R. J.; Franciosini, E.; Moraux, E.; López-Santiago, J.; Pancino, E.; Spina, L. (July 2018). "The Gaia-ESO Survey: a kinematical and dynamical study of four young open clusters". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 615 : A37. arXiv :1803.01908 . Bibcode :2018A&A...615A..37B . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201832645 . ISSN 0004-6361 . S2CID 119494247 .
^ "Full name of NGC discoverers" . NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Archived from the original on 28 February 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2014 .
^ "Young, Hot and Blue - Stars in the cluster NGC 2547" . www.eso.org . Retrieved 2020-01-22 .
^ Young, E. T.; Lada, C. J.; Teixeira, P.; Muzerolle, J.; Muench, A.; Stauffer, J.; Beichman, C. A.; Rieke, G. H.; Hines, D. C.; Su, K. Y. L.; Engelbracht, C. W. (September 2004). "Spitzer Observations of NGC 2547: The Disk Population at 25 Million Years" . The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series . 154 (1): 428. Bibcode :2004ApJS..154..428Y . doi :10.1086/422688 . ISSN 0067-0049 .
^ Beccari, Giacomo; Boffin, Henri M. J.; Jerabkova, Tereza; Wright, Nicholas J.; Kalari, Venu M.; Carraro, Giovanni; De Marchi, Guido; de Wit, Willem-Jan (November 2018). "A sextet of clusters in the Vela OB2 region revealed by Gaia" (PDF) . MNRAS . 481 (1): L11–L15. arXiv :1807.07073 . Bibcode :2018MNRAS.481L..11B . doi :10.1093/mnrasl/sly144 . ISSN 0035-8711 . S2CID 118974910 .
^ "[BBJ2018] 6" . sim-basic . Retrieved 2020-01-22 .
^ Cantat-Gaudin, T.; Mapelli, M.; Balaguer-Núñez, L.; Jordi, C.; Sacco, G.; Vallenari, A. (January 2019). "A ring in a shell: the large-scale 6D structure of the Vela OB2 complex". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 621 : A115. arXiv :1808.00573 . Bibcode :2019A&A...621A.115C . doi :10.1051/0004-6361/201834003 . ISSN 0004-6361 . S2CID 119071750 .
^ Littlefair, S. P.; Naylor, Tim; Jeffries, R. D.; Devey, C. R.; Vine, S. (November 2003). "Mass segregation in the young open cluster NGC 2547" . MNRAS . 345 (4): 1205–1211. arXiv :astro-ph/0308320 . Bibcode :2003MNRAS.345.1205L . doi :10.1046/j.1365-2966.2003.07035.x . ISSN 0035-8711 .