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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. 3.

Three models for the spatial distribution of star‐forming regions. The sizes of the regions have the observed power‐law distribution. These models are Gaussian‐smoothed to varying degrees to make the counts shown on the right in Fig. 2.

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