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Age and mass constraints for a young massive cluster in M31 based on spectral-energy-distribution fitting

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2015-05-27 v1

Abstract

VDB0-B195D is a massive, blue star cluster in M31. It was observed as part of the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC) Multicolor Sky Survey using 15 intermediate-band filters covering a wavelength range of 3000--10,000 \AA. Based on aperture photometry, we obtain its spectral-energy distribution (SED) as defined by the 15 BATC filters. We apply previously established relations between the BATC intermediate-band and the Johnson-Cousins UBVRIUBVRI broad-band systems to convert our BATC photometry to the standard system. A detailed comparison shows that our newly derived VRIVRI magnitudes are fully consistent with previous results, while our new BB magnitude agrees to within 2σ2\sigma. In addition, we determine the cluster's age and mass by comparing its SED (from 3000 to 20,000{\AA}, comprising photometric data in the 15 BATC intermediate bands, optical broad-band BVRIBVRI, and 2MASS near-infrared JHKsJHK_{\rm s} data) with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, resulting in age and mass determinations of 60.0±8.060.0\pm 8.0~Myr and (1.11.6)×105M(1.1-1.6) \times 10^5 M_\odot, respectively. This age and mass confirms previous suggestions that VDB0-B195D is a young massive cluster in M31.

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@article{arxiv.1101.1567,
  title  = {Age and mass constraints for a young massive cluster in M31 based on spectral-energy-distribution fitting},
  author = {Jun Ma and Song Wang and Zhenyu Wu and Zhou Fan and Yanbin Yang and Tianmeng Zhang and Jianghua Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.1567},
  year   = {2015}
}

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Accepted for Publication in AJ, 12 pages, 4 figures and 7 tables