Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986pasp...98.1113h&link_type=abstract
Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Publications (ISSN 0004-6280), vol. 98, Nov. 1986, p. 1113-1122.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Astronomical Catalogs, Magellanic Clouds, Star Clusters, Photographic Plates, Stellar Magnitude
Scientific paper
A series of limiting plates of the Small Magellanic Cloud taken with the CTIO 4-m telescope has been examined to find all previously cataloged star clusters and all additional recognizable clusters, most of which turn out to be very small and faint. Because this survey reaches stars in the SMC as faint as absolute magnitudes of M(B) = +4, any significant star cluster not older than the universe should show up, and so these new data should be a nearly complete sample of all surviving clusters in most of the regions investigated. Data on the positions, diameters, and estimates of the brightest blue stars are given for the 213 new clusters. The total number of cataloged SMC cluster candidates is now 601. It is estimated that if similar deep surveys were to be made of the rest of the SMC the total number of detectable clusters would be approximately 900. Taking incompleteness into account, an estimate of the total SMC cluster population is approximately 2000.
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