Investigating the Young Stellar Populations and Hierarchies in Nearby Galaxies with the UVIT. III. Evidence for a Largest Scale of Correlated Stellar Structures and a Non-universal Fractal Dimension

Gairola Shashank, Smitha Subramanian, Shyam H. Menon +5

Scale-free turbulent motions, gravitational collapse and galactic dynamics govern galactic-scale, hierarchical organization of star formation (SF) within galaxies. Past studies sug…