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Based on ISOCAM mid-IR photometry and Arnica/NOT near-IR photometry we find two separate generations of Young Stellar Objects (YSOs) in the Serpens Cloud Core. The youngest generation consists of several sub-clusters (0.12 pc diameter) of Class I and flat-spectrum sources, probably formed in a microburst of star formation within the last 105 yrs. The population of Class II sources, which are spatially more distributed, has a luminosity function (LF) for which an age of 2 Myr is the best fit to models.
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Kaas, A. et al. (2005). The IMF of Class II Objects in the Active Serpens Cloud Core. In: Corbelli, E., Palla, F., Zinnecker, H. (eds) The Initial Mass Function 50 Years Later. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 327. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3407-7_21
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