Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-19
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages (including 7 figures) submitted to Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
We studied the stellar population and star clusters around six regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in order to understand the correlation between star formation and cluster formation episodes. We used the stellar data base of OGLE II LMC survey and the star cluster catalogues. The analysis of the colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) were used to estimate the ages of the stellar population. It is found that most of the regions have undergone three major star formation episodes. The star formation which began about 4 Gyr ago, continued upto 1 Gyr, or continued further. The other two events have taken place around 300 Myr, and 100 Myr. A few star clusters were formed during the first of the three star formation events in 5 regions. On all the six regions, a good correlation is seen between the star and cluster formation events which occurred at 300 Myr and 100 Myr. The cluster formation events and the fraction of star clusters formed were found to be very similar for two regions located to the south-east of the Bar, suggesting similar cluster formation triggers at almost similar instances. The two recent star formation events seem to correlate with the interaction of LMC with Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and Galaxy. Hence it is quite likely that the young populous star clusters in the LMC are formed as a result of the star formation events started due to galaxy-galaxy interactions and the further propagation of such star formation.
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