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We present results from ACS and WFPC observations in the low luminosity galaxy NGC 45. We identified 28 young star cluster candidates. While the exact values of age, mass, and extinction depend somewhat on the choice of SSP models, we find…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Marcelo D. Mora , Soeren S. Larsen , Markus Kissler-Patig

A search for stellar clusters has been carried out in 18 nearby spiral galaxies, using HST/WFPC2 archive images. All of the galaxies have previously been imaged from the ground in UBVI. A catalogue of structural parameters, photometry and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Soeren S. Larsen

Recent studies have started to cast doubt on the assumption that most stars are formed in clusters. Observational studies of field stars and star cluster systems in nearby galaxies can lead to better constraints on the fraction of stars…

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We present colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for a sample of seven young massive clusters in the galaxies NGC 1313, NGC 1569, NGC 1705, NGC 5236 and NGC 7793. The clusters have ages in the range 5-50 million years and masses of 10^5 -10^6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 S. S. Larsen , S. E. de Mink , J. J. Eldridge , N. Langer , N. Bastian , A. Seth , L. J. Smith , J. Brodie , Y. N. Efremov

The evolution of star clusters is studied using N-body simulations in which the evolution of single stars and binaries are taken self-consistently into account. Initial conditions are chosen to represent relatively young Galactic open…

We present the results of deep high resolution imaging performed with ACS/HRC@HST in the most active region of the nearby starburst galaxy NGC 4214. We resolved the stellar populations of five Young Massive Clusters and their surrounding…

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We present a brief summary of our current results on the stellar distribution and population gradients of the resolved stars in the surroundings of ~50 nearby disk galaxies, observed with space- (Hubble & Spitzer) and ground-based…

We present results from a study of proto-globular cluster candidates in the interacting galaxy system Arp 284 (NGC 7714/5). Studies of the Antennae and M51 have suggested that the majority of these star clusters dissolve within 20 Myr due…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-26 Bradley W. Peterson , Curtis Struck , Beverly J. Smith , Mark Hancock

We present results of age determination based on the standard procedure of isochrone fitting for about 600 star clusters younger than about 1.2 Gyr from the central parts of the LMC. Comparison of age distributions of star clusters from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski

{Aims.} We present the main results of an imaging survey of possible young massive clusters (YMC) in M31 performed with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera2 (WFPC2) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). We present the images and color…

We present integrated photometry and color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for 24 star clusters in M33, of which 12 were previously uncataloged. These results are based on Advanced Camera for Surveys observations from the Hubble Space Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ata Sarajedini , M. K. Barker , Doug Geisler , Paul Harding , Robert Schommer

We infer the ages of three young stellar clusters, NGC 2004, NGC 7419, and NGC 2100, using Stellar Ages, a statistical algorithm designed to infer stellar population properties from color magnitude diagrams. Recent studies have revealed…

The observed properties of young star clusters, such as the core radius and luminosity profile, change rapidly during the early evolution of the clusters. Here we present observations of 6 young clusters in M51 where we derive their sizes…

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Determining the sequence of events in the formation of stars and planetary systems and their time-scales is essential for understanding those processes, yet establishing ages is fundamentally difficult because we lack direct indicators. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David R. Soderblom , Lynne A. Hillenbrand , Rob D. Jeffries , Eric E. Mamajek , Tim Naylor

We present a study of the variation of spatial structure of stellar populations within dwarf galaxies as a function of the population age. We use deep Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys imaging of nearby dwarf galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. Bastian , D. R. Weisz , E. D. Skillman , K. B. W. McQuinn , A. E. Dolphin , R. A. Gutermuth , J. M. Cannon , B. Ercolano , M. Gieles , R. C. Kennicutt , F. Walter

We present results from a study of proto-globular cluster candidates in the interacting galaxy system Arp 284 (NGC 7714/5) using data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Previous studies of the Antennae and M51 have suggested that the majority…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bradley W. Peterson , Curtis Struck , Beverly J. Smith , Mark Hancock

We study the stellar cluster population in M81, using the HST/ACS images in the filters F435W, F606W and F814W that cover a total field of view of approximately 140 square arcmin. We present details about the selection criteria, which were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-10 M. Santiago-Cortes , Y. D. Mayya , D. Rosa-Gonzalez

The spatial morphological study of studied clusters is carried out through the identified probable members within them. The field stars decontamination is performed by the statistical cleaning approach (depends on the magnitude and colour…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-05 Gireesh C. Joshi

We present a study of the young population in the starburst galaxy NGC 253. In particular, we focused our attention on searching young star groups, obtaining their main properties and studying their hierarchical organization. For this task,…

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