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Fractal Structure in Galactic Star Fields

  • Authors: Bruce G. Elmegreen and Debra Meloy Elmegreen

Elmegreen & Elmegreen 2001 The Astronomical Journal 121 1507.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Fig. 2.

Number of star‐forming concentrations as a function of the smoothing scale for five regions in NGC 2207 (top left), for nine regions in eight galaxies (bottom left), and for three types of models (right). The dashed line has a slope of −1 on this log‐log plot. The observations are best fitted by a fractal with a dimension of 2.3, as shown by the dashed lines on the right.

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