Specific Star Forming Regions -- Poster Presentation

Cluster Recognition Program - Progress Towards an Unbiased Detection and Analysis of Clusters

Bruno Ferreira, University of Florida

Elizabeth Lada (University of Florida)


Having developed and tested a systematic and unbiased method of cluster detection I present, in this poster, the method and the results of this work. In order to make statistically sound affirmations on the properties of young stellar clusters one needs to study a large number of these clusters and to do so in an identical way so as to make their results suitable for comparison. The method developed had that specific goal. Furthermore, so as to not have a biased sample, we removed identification-by-eye and subtituted it with a more robust method.