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We combine archival images for the nearby galaxy M33 (Triangulum Galaxy) from the ultraviolet (UV) to the infrared (IR) to derive ages, masses, and extinctions for the young star cluster population, and compare our physical parameters with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-22 Caitlin Moeller , Daniela Calzetti

Dust plays a pivotal role in determining the observed spectral energy distribution (SED) of galaxies. Yet our understanding of dust attenuation is limited and our observations suffer from the dust-metallicity-age degeneracy in SED fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-22 Gautam Nagaraj , John C. Forbes , Joel Leja , Daniel Foreman-Mackey , Christopher C. Hayward

The influence of both major and minor mergers is expected to significantly affect gradients of stellar ages and metallicities in the outskirts of galaxies. Measurements of observed gradients are beginning to reach large radii in galaxies,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-09-07 B. A. Cook , C. Conroy , A. Pillepich , L. Hernquist

Stellar population models are commonly calculated using star clusters as calibrators for those evolutionary stages that depend on free parameters. However, discrepancies exist among different models, even if similar sets of calibration…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Noelia E. D. Noel , Laura Greggio , Alvio Renzini , Marcella Carollo , Claudia Maraston

We use high signal-to-noise spectroscopy for a sample of 232 quiescent galaxies in the Shapley Supercluster, to investigate how their stellar populations depend on velocity dispersion, luminosity and stellar mass. The sample spans a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Russell J. Smith , John R. Lucey , Michael J. Hudson

Core-collapse supernovae are found in regions associated with recent massive star formation. The stellar population observed around the location of a SN can be used as a probe of the origins of the progenitor star. We apply a Bayesian…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-21 J. R. Maund

We demonstrate a new Bayesian technique to invert color-magnitude diagrams of main sequence and white dwarf stars to reveal the underlying cluster properties of age, distance, metallicity, and line-of-sight absorption, as well as individual…

We present integrated JHK_s 2MASS photometry and a compilation of integrated-light optical photoelectric measurements for 84 star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. These clusters range in age from ~200 Myr to >10 Gyr, and have [Fe/H]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Pessev , P. Goudfrooij , T. H. Puzia , R. Chandar

We present an empirical method to derive photometric metallicity, reddening and distance to old stellar populations by using a few major features of the Red Giant Branch (RGB) in near IR color magnitude diagrams. We combine the observed RGB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. R. Ferraro , E. Valenti , L. Origlia

To study the evolution of binary star clusters we have imaged 7 systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud with SOAR 4-m telescope using B and V filters. The sample contains pairs with well-separated components (d < 30 pc) as well as systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. F. C. Santos , A. A. Schmidt , E. Bica

We describe a novel method for determining the demographics of a population of star clusters, for example distributions of cluster mass and age, from unresolved photometry. This method has a number of desirable properties: it fully exploits…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-07 Mark R. Krumholz , Angela Adamo , Michele Fumagalli , Daniela Calzetti

We use deep \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} spectroscopy to constrain the metallicities and (\editone{light-weighted}) ages of massive ($\log M_\ast/M_\odot\gtrsim10$) galaxies selected to have quiescent stellar populations at $1.0<z<1.8$.…

The age and chemical composition of the stars in present-day galaxies carry important clues about their star formation processes. The latest generation of population synthesis models have allowed to derive age and stellar metallicity…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Anna Gallazzi

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

High resolution spectral models for simple stellar populations (SSP) developed in the past few years have become a standard ingredient in studies of stellar population of galaxies. As more such models become available, it becomes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Roberto Cid Fernandes , Rosa M. Gonzalez Delgado

We present flux-calibrated integrated spectra in the optical range (3700-6800 \AA) obtained at Complejo Astron\'omico El Leoncito (CASLEO, Argentina) for a sample of 10 concentrated star clusters belonging to the Large Magellanic Cloud…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Andrea V. Ahumada , Luis R. Vega , Juan J. Clariá , Mónica A. Oddone , Tali Palma

We study in detail the properties of the stellar populations of 111 massive ($\log(M_{\star}/\mathrm{M}_\odot) \ge 10)$ dusty (FIR-selected) starburst ($SFR/SFR_\mathrm{MS}>2$) galaxies at $0.7<z<1.2$. For that purpose, we use…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-24 Néstor Espino-Briones , Pablo G. Pérez-González , Jaime Zamorano , Lucía Rodríguez-Muñoz

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 colour-magnitude diagrams for two rich (~10^4 Msun) Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters with ages ~10^7 years, constructed from optical and near-infrared data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. These data are part of an…

We present estimates of stellar age and mass for 0.93 million Galactic disk main sequence turn-off and sub-giant stars from the LAMOST Galactic Spectroscopic Surveys. The ages and masses are determined by matching with stellar isochrones…