Probing the Large Magellanic Cloud age gap at intermediate cluster masses

Autor:	Balbinot, Eduardo, Santiago, Basilio Xavier, Kerber, Leandro de Oliveira, Barbuy, Beatriz, Dias, Bruno Moreira de Souza
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	Fotometria astronômica statistics [Stars] Nuvens de magalhaes Aglomerados estelares star clusters [Galaxies] stellar content [Galaxies] Magellanic clouds Formacao de estrelas
Zdroj:	Repositório Institucional da UFRGS Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) instacron:UFRGS
Popis:	The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a rich star cluster system spanning a wide range of ages and masses. One striking feature of the LMC cluster system is the existence of an age gap between 3 and 10 Gyr. But this feature is not clearly seen among field stars. Three LMC fields containing relatively poor and sparse clusters whose integrated colours are consistent with those of intermediate-age simple stellar populations have been imaged in BVI with the Optical Imager (SOI) at the Southern Telescope for Astrophysical Research (SOAR). A total of six clusters, five of them with estimated initial massesM
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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