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To take advantage of the increasing amount of available multi-wavelength astronomical data, we are statistically merging data from several wavelength regimes to analyze astronomical objects. This simultaneous analysis of emission across a wide range of wavelengths will help to provide a composite understanding of young stellar objects. A statistical clustering technique coupled with fused multi-wavelength data from the optical, infrared, and X-ray can provide insight into the physical mechanisms responsible for the intense emission from young stars in different wavelength regimes and can be used to view trends and correlations between those regimes. We present some details of the data fusion followed by our results thus far analyzing spectral data from pre-main sequence (PMS) stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster (ONC). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several colliding-wind massive binaries are known to be non-thermal emitters in the radio domain. This constitutes strong evidence for the fact that an efficient particle acceleration process is at work in these objects. The acceleration mechanism is most probably the Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) process in the presence of strong hydrodynamic shocks due to the colliding-winds. In order to investigate the physics of this particle acceleration, we initiated a multiwavelength campaign covering a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum. In this context, the detailed study of the hard X-ray emission from these sources in the SIMBOL-X bandpass constitutes a crucial element in order to probe this still poorly known topic of astrophysics. It should be noted that colliding-wind massive binaries should be considered as very valuable targets for the investigation of particle acceleration in a similar way as supernova remnants, but in a different region of the parameter space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]