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Isolated clusters of young stars embedded within molecular clouds provide unique opportunities to study star formation. They are ideal for establishing the timescales for star formation as well as determining the emergent mass spectrum of stellar groups. Such embedded clusters, bound by parent molecular gas, preserve a record of the mass distribution in a localized region of space. We present results from our near-IR survey of the Mon R2 molecular core studied by Xie (1992). Through analysis of color-color and color-magnitude diagrams based on JHK imaging photometry, we determine the fraction of young stars surrounded by accretion disks, and investigate the age and mass distribution of the cluster.
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Meyer, M., Dougados, C., Fairfield, S., Carpenter, J., Skrutskie, M., Strom, S. (1994). Imaging of Embedded Clusters: Mon R2. In: McLean, I.S. (eds) Infrared Astronomy with Arrays. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 190. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1070-9_26
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