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| Name: Olag Bordoloi Affiliation: Tezpur University, Sonitpur Conference ID: ASI2019_467 Title : Mapping Hydrogen Column Densities towards N11 Complex in the Large Magellanic Cloud Authors and Co-Authors : Olag Pratim Bordoloi (1), Anshuman Borgohain (1), Gautam Saikia (1), P. Shalima (2) and Rupjyoti Gogoi (1). (1) Tezpur University, Napaam, Assam 784028, India (2) Regional Institute of Education Mysore, Mysuru, Karnataka 570006, India Abstract Type : Poster Abstract Category : Extragalactic Astronomy Abstract : Study of the properties of HII regions, the sites of massive star formation, in a variety of extragalactic environments provides insight into stellar evolution as a whole. Determining the amount of hydrogen is very useful for the study of initial conditions for star formation as it is the fuel for all stars. However, it cannot be detected directly and hence indirect methods like studying the dust distribution of molecular clouds is used. In this work, we study a sample of early O-B type stars towards the N11 star forming region in the the Large Magellanic cloud (LMC) and thereby infer the abundance of hydrogen in this region. We have mapped the hydrogen column density towards the N11 complex at various distances from the Milky Way (MW) and obtained a higher concentration of hydrogen towards lower longitude (gl) regions of the nebula. |