The Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury. Progression of Large-Scale Star Formation across Space and Time in M31

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We investigate the clustering of early-type stars younger than 300 Myr on galactic scales in M31.

• Based on the stellar photometric catalogs of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury program that also provides stellar parameters derived from the individual energy distributions, our analysis is focused on the young stars in three star-forming regions, located at galactocentric distances of about 5, 10, and 15 kpc, corresponding to the inner spiral arms, the ring structure, and the outer arm, respectively.
• We apply the two-point correlation function to our selected sample to investigate the clustering behavior of these stars across different time- and length-scales.
• We find that young stellar structure survives across the whole extent of M31 longer than 300 Myr.