HST Observations of Young Star Clusters in Interacting Galaxies
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We present early results from the analysis of HST imaging observations for several pairs of interacting galaxies. We include two cases that were specifically chosen to represent a strong early (young) encounter (Arp 81 = NGC 6621/6622) and a weak late (old) encounter (Arp 297 = NGC 5752/5754). The goals of the project include a determination of the timing, frequency, strength, and characteristics of the young star clusters formed in these two limiting cases of tidal encounters.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0105155,
title = {HST Observations of Young Star Clusters in Interacting Galaxies},
author = {K. D. Borne and W. C. Keel and P. N. Appleton and C. Struck and R. A. Lucas and A. Schultz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0105155},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages. To appear in the proceedings of IAU Symposium 207 "Extragalactic Star Clusters", edited by E. Grebel, D. Geisler, and D. Minniti. Uses IAU207_pasp.sty. Added one more page of material (5/10/01)