Integrated UBV Photometry of 624 Star Clusters and Associations in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Autor: Eduardo Luiz Damiani Bica, Horacio Alberto Dottori, Joao Francisco Coelho dos Santos Junior, Andrés E. Piatti, Juan Jose Claria Olmedo
Rok vydání: 1996
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Zdroj: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)
instacron:UFRGS
ISSN: 1538-4365
0067-0049
DOI: 10.1086/192251
Popis: We present a catalogof integrated UBV photometry of 504 star clusters and 120 stellar associations in the LMC, part ofthem still embedded in emitting gas. We study age groups in terms of equivalent SWB types derived from the (U-B) X (B-V) diagram. The size ofthe spatia1 distributions increases steadily with age (SWB types), whereas a difference of axial ratio exists between the groups younger than 30 Myr and those older, which implies a nearly face-on orientation for the former and a tilt of ~45º for the latter groups. Asymmetries are present in the spâtial distributions, which, together with the noncoincidence ofthe centroids for different age groups, suggest that the LMC disk was severely perturbed in the past.
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