Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1987
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987a%26a...175...54p&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 175, no. 1-2, March 1987, p. 54-59.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Blue Stars, Early Stars, Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation, Ultraviolet Astronomy, Astronomical Photometry, Emission Spectra, Faint Objects, Far Ultraviolet Radiation, Main Sequence Stars, Stellar Luminosity
Scientific paper
Far-UV balloon observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud have revealed a thin arc-shaped emission in the very southern end of the Cloud. A rapid inspection of visual photographic plates shows that this brightness enhancement corresponds to a very numerous faint blue population, without very bright O stars or supergiants. The author has determined the parameters of the stellar content of this region, using large-scale UBV photographic photometry. It presents a relatively usual value for the slope of the V luminosity function for the main sequence stars (0.6), within the V magnitude range 14 to 18. The upper mass limit in the region is estimated to be about 25 M_sun;.
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