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We present a spectroscopic analysis of main sequence (MS) stars in the young globular cluster NGC1818 (age~40 Myrs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our photometric survey on Magellanic Clouds clusters has revealed that NGC1818, similarly to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. F. Marino , N. Przybilla , A. P. Milone , G. Da Costa , F. D'Antona , A. Dotter , A. Dupree

Young and intermediate-age star clusters of both Magellanic Clouds exhibit complex color-magnitude diagrams. In addition to the extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs), commonly observed in star clusters younger than ~2 Gyr, the clusters…

The discovery of multiple MSs in NGC2808 and Omega Centauri, and multiple SGBs in NGC1851 and NGC6388 has challenged the long-held paradigm that GCs consist of simple stellar populations. This picture has been further complicated by recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. P. Milone , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , J. Anderson

We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 Andrés E. Piatti

Intermediate-age star clusters in the LMC present extended main sequence turnoffs (MSTO) that have been attributed to either multiple stellar populations or an effect of stellar rotation. Recently it has been proposed that these extended…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-25 R. Salinas , M. A. Pajkos , A. K. Vivas , J. Strader , R. Contreras Ramos

Over the past decade, stellar rotation has emerged as a key factor in shaping the morphology of color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters. In this study, we use MUSE integral-field spectroscopy to investigate the…

A high number of embedded clusters is found in the Galaxy. Depending on the formation scenario, most of them can evolve to unbounded groups that are dissolved within a few tens of Myr. A systematic study of young stellar clusters showing…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 T. Santos-Silva , J. Gregorio-Hetem

Recent observational studies of intermediate-age star clusters (SCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have reported that a significant number of these objects show double main-sequence turn-offs (DMSTOs) in their color-magnitude diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Bekki , A. D. Mackey

High-resolution spectroscopic observations were taken of 29 extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) stars in the young ($\sim$200 Myr) LMC cluster, NGC 1866 using the Michigan/Magellan Fiber System and MSpec spectrograph on the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-30 A. K. Dupree , A. Dotter , C. I. Johnson , A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , J. I. Bailey , J. D. Crane , M. Mateo , E. W. Olszewski

The importance of stellar rotation in setting the observed properties of young star clusters has become clearer over the past decade, with rotation being identified as the main cause of the observed extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-15 Silvia Martocchia , Nate Bastian , Sara Saracino , Sebastian Kamann

The extended Main Sequence Turn-off (eMSTO) in the open cluster NGC 2355 is investigated using precise astrometry and photometry from Gaia DR3 and spectroscopic data from the Gaia-ESO Survey. We find a clear positive correlation between the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Jayanand Maurya , Yu Zhang , Hubiao Niu

The origin of young star clusters represents a major challenge for modern stellar astrophysics. While stellar rotation partially explains the colour spread observed along main-sequence turn-offs, i.e. where stars leave the main-sequence…

Multiple or extended turnoffs in young clusters in the Magellanic Clouds have recently received large attention. A number of studies have shown that they may be interpreted as the result of a significant age spread (several 10^8yr in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 F. D'Antona , M. Di Criscienzo , T. Decressin , A. P. Milone , E. Vesperini , P. Ventura

Stock 2 is a little-studied open cluster that shows an extended main-sequence turnoff (eMSTO). In order to investigate this phenomenon and characterise the cluster itself we performed high-resolution spectroscopy in the framework of the…

Double or extended main-sequence turn-offs (DMSTOs) and dual red clump (RC) were observed in intermediate-age clusters, such as in NGC 1846 and 419. the DMSTOs are interpreted as that the cluster has two distinct stellar popula- tions with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Wuming Yang , Xiangcun Meng , Shaolan Bi , Zhijia Tian , Tanda Li , Kang Liu

We investigate the distribution of bright main sequence stars near the northern edge of the M33 disk. Clustering on sub-kpc scales is seen among stars with ages near 10 Myr, and two large star-forming complexes are identified. Similar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 T. J. Davidge , T. H. Puzia , A. W. McConnachie

We present a survey of 130 Galactic and extragalactic young massive clusters (YMCs, $10^4 < M/\msun < 10^8$, $10 < t/{\rm Myr} < 1000$) with integrated spectroscopy or resolved stellar photometry (40 presented here and 90 from the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 N. Bastian , I. Cabrera-Ziri , B. Davies , S. S. Larsen

Extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTO) have been observed in the color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of intermediate-age and young star clusters. The origin of the eMSTO phenomenon is still highly debated. Calculations show that the blue and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-04 Wuming Yang

A significant number of intermediate age clusters (1-2 Gyr) in the Magellanic Clouds appear to have multiple stellar populations within them, derived from bi-modal or extended main sequence turn offs. If this is interpreted as an age…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-13 Nate Bastian , Selma de Mink

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 N. Bastian , M. Gieles , S. P. Goodwin , G. Trancho , L. J. Smith , I. Konstantopoulos , Yu. Efremov