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The age distribution of star clusters in nearby galaxies plays a crucial role in evaluating the lifetimes and disruption mechanisms of the clusters. Two very different results have been found recently for the age distribution chi(t) of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-15 Rupali Chandar , Bradley C. Whitmore , S. Michael Fall

We present a new study of the spatial distribution and ages of the star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). To detect and estimate the ages of the star clusters we rely on the new fully-automated method developed by Bitsakis et…

The accuracy in determining the spatial-kinematical parameters of open clusters makes them ideal tracers of the Galactic structure. Young open clusters (YOCs) are the main representative of the clustered star formation mode, which…

The age distribution of the central stars of planetary nebulae (CSPN) is estimated using two methods based on their kinematic properties. First, the expected rotation velocities of the nebulae at their Galactocentric distances are compared…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-29 W. J. Maciel , T. S. Rodrigues , R. D. D. Costa

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

The distribution of member stars in the surroundings of an Open Cluster (OC) can shed light on the process of its formation, evolution and dissolution. The analysis of structural parameters of OCs as a function of their age and position in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Y. Tarricq , C. Soubiran , L. Casamiquela , A. Castro-Ginard , J. Olivares , N. Miret-Roig , P. A. B. Galli

We present an analysis of the positions and ages of young star clusters in eight local galaxies to investigate the connection between the age difference and separation of cluster pairs. We find that star clusters do not form uniformly but…

We present a study of the spatial distribution of the stellar cluster populations in the star forming galaxy NGC 628. Using Hubble Space Telescope broad band WFC3/UVIS UV and optical images from the Treasury Program LEGUS (Legacy…

The Galactic Bulge, as the center of the Galaxy, is the closest laboratory for studying galaxy formation and evolution. However, its study faces significant challenges due to heavy dust extinction. This paper is devoted to deriving the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-10 Jialu Nie , Martín López-Corredoira , Chao Liu , Hai-feng Wang , Iulia Simion

Globular Cluster (GC) formation seems to be a widespread mode of star formation in extreme starbursts triggered by strong interactions and mergers of massive gas-rich galaxies. We use our detailed chemically consistent evolutionary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-10 Uta Fritze -- v. Alvensleben

We present new proper motions from the 10 m Keck telescopes for a puzzling population of massive, young stars located within 3.5" (0.14 pc) of the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center. Our proper motion measurements have…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 J. R. Lu , A. M. Ghez , S. D. Hornstein , M. R. Morris , E. E. Becklin , K. Matthews

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

Some of the most massive globular clusters of our Milky Way, such as for example omega-Centauri, show a mixture of stellar populations spanning a few Gyr in age and 1.5 dex in metallicities. In contrast, standard formation scenarios predict…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mike Fellhauer , Pavel Kroupa , Wyn Evans

We employ optical photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy to study a field toward the open cluster Tombaugh 1, where we identify a complex population mixture, that we describe in terms of young and old Galactic thin disk. Of particular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-15 Giovanni Carraro , Joao Victor Sales Silva , Christian Moni Bidin , Ruben Vazquez

The center of our galaxy is home to a massive black hole, SgrA*, and a nuclear star cluster containing stellar populations of various ages. While the late type stars may be too old to have retained memory of their initial orbital…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-18 Ann-Marie Madigan , Oliver Pfuhl , Yuri Levin , Stefan Gillessen , Reinhard Genzel , Hagai B. Perets

In very young clusters, stellar age distribution is the empirical proof of the duration of star formation (SF) and of the physical mechanisms involved in the process. We derived accurate stellar ages for the cluster NGC6530, associated with…

Aims. We study the connection between spatially resolved star formation and young star clusters across the disc of M51. Methods. We combine star cluster data based on B, V, and I-band Hubble Space Telescope ACS imaging, together with new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. A. Scheepmaker , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , P. Anders , S. S. Larsen

In this Letter, we analyse the distributions of stellar ages in Giant Molecular Clouds (GMCs) in spiral arms, inter-arm spurs, and at large galactic radii, where the spiral arms are relatively weak. We use the results of numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 C. L. Dobbs , J. E. Pringle , T. Naylor

We construct a sample of nearly 30,000 main-sequence stars with 4500K $<T\rm_{eff}<$ 5000K and stellar ages estimated by the chromospheric activity$-$age relation. This sample is used to determine the age distribution in the $R-Z$ plane of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Jiajun Zhang , Jingkun Zhao , Terry D. Oswalt , Xilong Liang , Xianhao Ye , Gang Zhao

We determine the age of 1,104 early-type galaxies in eight rich clusters ($z = 0.0046$ to $0.175$) using a new continuum color technique. We find that galaxies in clusters divide into two populations, an old population with a mean age…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Rakos , J. Schombert , A. Odell