Variation of the cluster luminosity function across the disk of M51
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We study the luminosity function (LF) of the star clusters in M51. Comparing the observed LF with the LF resulting from artificial cluster populations suggests that there exists an upper mass limit for clusters and that this limit and/or the cluster disruption varies with galactocentric distance.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0609018,
title = {Variation of the cluster luminosity function across the disk of M51},
author = {M. R. Haas and M. Gieles and R. A. Scheepmaker and S. S. Larsen and H. J. G. L. M. Lamers and N. Bastian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0609018},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, no figures. To appear in "Mass loss from stars and the evolution of stellar clusters". Proc. of a workshop held in honor of Henny Lamers, Lunteren, The Netherlands, May 29 - June 1, 2006. Editors Alex de Koter, Linda Smith and Rens Waters (San Francisco: ASP)