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This paper is the fourth in a series presenting spectrophotometry of 51 globular cluster candidates, that were detected by Mochejska et al. in the nearby galaxy M33 using the data collected by the DIRECT project. The frames of M33 in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen , Hong Wu , Xu Kong , Zhaoji Jiang , Suijian Xue , Jin Zhu

We present color magnitude diagrams of four blue massive and compact star clusters in M31: G38, G44, G94, and G293. The diagrams of the four clusters reveal a well-populated upper main sequence and various numbers of supergiants. The U-B…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Benjamin F. Williams , Paul W. Hodge

The newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) on the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to obtain multi-band images of the nearby spiral galaxy M83. These new observations are the deepest and highest resolution images ever taken of a…

Surface brightness profiles for 23 M31 star clusters were measured using images from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on the Hubble Space Telescope, and fit to two types of models to determine the clusters' structural properties. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-07 P. Barmby , S. Perina , M. Bellazzini , J. G. Cohen , P. W. Hodge , J. P. Huchra , M. Kissler-Patig , T. H. Puzia , J. Strader

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

We present a comprehensive catalog of 700 confirmed star clusters in the field of M31 compiled from three major existing catalogs. We detect 418 and 257 star clusters in Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) near-ultraviolet (NUV) and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Yongbeom Kang , Soo-Chang Rey , Luciana Bianchi , Kyungsook Lee , YoungKwang Kim , Sangmo Tony Sohn

We present a photometric catalogue of star cluster candidates in Hickson compact groups (HCGs) 7, 31, 42, 59, and 92, based on observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 K. Fedotov , S. C. Gallagher , P. R. Durrell , N. Bastian , I. S. Konstantopoulos , J. Charlton , K. E. Johnson , R. Chandar

We discuss new photometry from high-resolution images of 7 intermediate-age (1-2 Gyr) star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. We fit color-magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Goudfrooij , Thomas H. Puzia , Vera Kozhurina-Platais , Rupali Chandar

We present a multi-wavelength photometric study of individual stars in M83 based on observations taken as part of the WFC3 Early Release Science (ERS) program. The central region of M83 has been imaged in seven broad-band filters to obtain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-10 Hwihyun Kim , Bradley C. Whitmore , Rogier A. Windhorst

We present ages and masses for 601 star clusters in M31 from the analysis of the six filter integrated light measurements from near ultraviolet to near infrared wavelengths, made as part of the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT).…

Spectra of galaxies contain an enormous amount of information about the relative mixture of ages and metallicities of constituent stars. We present a comprehensive study designed to extract the maximum information from spectra of data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marsha J. Wolf , Niv Drory , Karl Gebhardt , Gary J. Hill

We present new high signal-to-noise spectroscopic data on the M31 globular cluster system, obtained with the Hectospec multifiber spectrograph on the 6.5m MMT. More than 300 clusters have been observed at a resolution of 5A. The primary…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Nelson Caldwell , Ricardo Schiavon , Heather Morrison , James A. Rose , Paul Harding

In this paper we present CCD multicolor photometry for 172 globular clusters (GCs), taken from the Bologna catalog (Battistini et al. 1987), in the nearby spiral galaxy M31. The observations were carried out by using the National…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Linhua Jiang , Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen , Hong Wu , Zhaoji Jiang

We analyse multi-wavelength observations of 32 young star clusters and associations in M33 with known oxygen abundance (8 < 12 + log(O/H) < 8.7), using ultraviolet (UV), optical, mid-infrared (MIR), CO (1-0) and 21-cm line (HI)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Grossi , E. Corbelli , C. Giovanardi , L. Magrini

We have carried out a survey of compact star clusters (apparent size <3 arcsec) in the southwest part of the M31 galaxy, based on the high-resolution Suprime-Cam images (17.5 arcmin x 28.5 arcmin), covering ~15% of the deprojected galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2009-11-18 V. Vansevicius , K. Kodaira , D. Narbutis , R. Stonkute , A. Bridzius , V. Deveikis , D. Semionov

Integrated spectra have been obtained of 31 star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (MC) and of 4 Galactic globular clusters. The spectra cover the wavelength range 3500 -- 4700 Angstroms at a resolution of 3.2 Angstroms FWHM. The MC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew. J. Leonardi , James. A. Rose

We present a method for finding clusters of young stars in M31 using broadband WFPC2 data from the HST data archive. Applying our identification method to 13 WFPC2 fields, covering an area of ~60 arcmin^2, has revealed 79 new candidate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Benjamin F. Williams , Paul W. Hodge

We present a color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the globular cluster SKHB-312 in the Andromeda galaxy (M31), obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the Hubble Space Telescope. The cluster was included in deep observations taken to…

Using the theoretical stellar population synthesis models of BC96, Kong et al. (2003) showed that some BATC colors and color indices could be used to disentangle the age and metallicity effect. They found that there is a very good relation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Jun Ma , Xu Zhou , Jiansheng Chen

We use young clusters and giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the galaxies M33 and M31 to constrain temporal and spatial scales in the star formation process. In M33, we compare the PHATTER catalogue of 1214 clusters with ages measured via…