We present a study of the star cluster associated with the massive Galactic HII region NGC3603 based on near-IR broad-- and narrowband observations taken with ISAAC/VLT under excellent seeing conditions (<0.4''). We discuss color-color diagrams and address the impact of the high UV flux on the disk evolution of the low-mass stars.
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0106307,
title = {NGC 3603 - a Local Template for Massive Young Clusters},
author = {B. Brandl and W. Brandner and F. Eisenhauer and A. F. J. Moffat and F. Palla and H. Zinnecker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0106307},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
3 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the Proceedings of IAU Symposium 207 "Extragalactic Star Clusters", eds. E. Grebel, D. Geisler and D. Minitti