Observational Bias and Young Massive Cluster Characterisation II. Can Gaia accurately observe young clusters and associations?

Observations of clusters suffer from issues such as completeness, projection effects, resolving individual stars and extinction. As such, how accurate are measurements and conclusions are likely to be? Here, we take cluster simulations (Westerlund2- and Orion- type), synthetically observe them to ob...

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