EPoS
EPoS Contribution

How Do Molecular Clouds Make Clusters?

Philip Myers
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
We discuss observations of embedded clusters and clouds in the context of cluster formation models, with emphasis on how well initial conditions models can account for the formation of hundreds of stars following the IMF in a region of ~1 pc size in a time span of ~1 Myr.