Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-12-07
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.375:1077-1086,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 11 figures, many of them degraded in resolution (especially Fig. 1), accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.11389.x
The color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) star cluster NGC 2154 and its adjacent field, has been analyzed using Padova stellar models to determine the cluster's fundamental parameters and its Star Formation History (SFH). Deep $BR$ CCD photometry, together with synthetic CMDs and Integrated Luminosity Functions (ILFs), has allowed us to infer that the cluster experienced an extended star formation period of about 1.2 Gyrs, which began approximately 2.3 Gyr and ended 1.1 Gyr ago. The physical reality of such a prolonged period of star formation is however questionable, and could be the result of inadequacies in the stellar evolutionary tracks themselves. A substantial fraction of binaries (70%) seems to exist in NGC 2154.
Baume Gustavo
Carraro Giovanni
Costa Edgardo
Girardi Leo
Mendez Rene' A. B.
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