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The majority of clusters in the Universe have masses well below 10^5 Msun. Hence their integrated fluxes and colors can be affected by the random presence of a few bright stars introduced by stochastic sampling of the stellar mass function.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Morgan Fouesneau , Ariane Lançon , Rupali Chandar , Bradley C. Whitmore

This is the second paper of our series. In this paper, we present $UBVRI$ photometry for 234 star clusters in the field of M33. For most of these star clusters, there is photometry in only two bands in previous studies. The photometry of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Jun Ma

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 study star clusters in two fields in the nearby spiral galaxy M83 using broad and narrow band optical imaging taken with the WFC3 on-board HST. We present results based on several different catalogs of star clusters in an inner and outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Rupali Chandar , Bradley C. Whitmore , Daniela Calzetti , Robert O'Connell

The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies performed to date essentially use multi-colour photometry, combined with theoretical stellar synthesis models, to derive ages, masses, extinction estimates, and metallicities. M31…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Z. Fan , J. Ma , R. de Grijs , Y. Yang , X. Zhou

We present an approach that improves the search for reliable astrophysical parameters (e.g. age, mass, and distance) of differentially-reddened, pre-main sequence-rich star clusters. It involves simulating conditions related to the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Charles Bonatto , Eduardo Bica , Eliade F. Lima

Many embedded star clusters do not evolve into long-lived bound clusters. The most popular explanation for this "infant mortality" of young clusters is the expulsion of natal gas by stellar winds and supernovae, which leaves up to 90% of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mark Gieles , Nate Bastian

We study the stellar cluster population in two adjacent fields in the nearby, face-on spiral galaxy, M83, using WFC3/HST imaging. The clusters are selected through visual inspection to be centrally concentrated, symmetric, and resolved on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 N. Bastian , A. Adamo , M. Gieles , E. Silva Villa , H. J. G. L. M Lamers , S. S. Larsen , L. J. Smith , I. S. Konstantopoulos , E. Zackrisson

We present integrated photometry and color-magnitude diagrams for 161 star clusters in M33, of which 115 were previously uncataloged, using the Advanced Camera For Surveys Wide Field Channel onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 Izaskun San Roman , Ata Sarajedini , Donald R. Garnett , Jon A. Holtzman

The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies done to date have essentially used two or three-passband aperture photometry, combined with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, to obtain age estimates. The accuracy to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Richard de Grijs

Using multi-wavelength imaging from the Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope we study the stellar cluster populations of two adjacent fields in the nearby face-on spiral galaxy, M83. The observations cover the galactic centre…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bastian , A. Adamo , M. Gieles , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , S. S. Larsen , E. Silva-Villa , L. J. Smith , R. Kotulla , I. S. Konstantopoulos , G. Trancho , E. Zackrisson

In order to empirically determine the timescale and environmental dependence of stellar cluster disruption, we have undertaken an analysis of the unprecedented multi-pointing (seven), multi-wavelength (U, B, V, H$\alpha$, and I) Hubble…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Silva-Villa , A. Adamo , N. Bastian , M. Fouesneau , E. Zackrisson

Studying the stellar populations in the outskirts of spiral galaxies can provide important constraints on their structure, formation, and evolution. To that end, we present VI photometry obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys for…

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

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…

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

(ABBREVIATED:) The large majority of extragalactic star cluster studies done to date have essentially used two or three-passband aperture photometry, combined with theoretical stellar population synthesis models, to obtain age, mass and…

Context. Determining the metallicities and ages of M31 clusters is fundamental to the study of the formation and evolution of M31 itself. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) has carried out a systematic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-27 Shoucheng Wang , Bingqiu Chen , Jun Ma

We present new age and mass estimates for 920 stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on previously published broad-band photometry and the stellar cluster analysis package, MASSCLEANage. Expressed in the generic fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Bogdan Popescu , M. M. Hanson , Bruce G. Elmegreen

We present precision radial velocities and stellar population parameters for 77 star clusters in the Local Group galaxy M33. Our GTC and WHT observations sample both young, massive clusters and known/candidate globular clusters, spanning…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-04-24 Michael A. Beasley , Izaskun San Roman , Carme Gallart , Ata Sarajedini , Antonio Aparicio

We use new WFC3 observations of the nearby grand design spiral galaxy M83 to develop two independent methods for estimating the ages of young star clusters. The first method uses the physical extent and morphology of Halpha emission to…