The Super Star Cluster NGC 1569-A Resolved on Sub-Parsec Scales with Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy

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2001-05-31

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0105565v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, accepted for publication in ApJ Let

Scientific paper

10.1086/321701

We present 3000--10000 Ang HST/STIS long-slit spectroscopy of the bright super star cluster A (SSC-A) in the dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 1569. The 0.05" HST angular resolution allows, for the first time, to probe for spatial variations in the stellar population of a ~ 10^6 M_sun SSC. Integrated ground-based spectra of SSC-A have previously revealed young Wolf-Rayet (WR) signatures that coexist with features from supposedly older, red supergiant (RSG), populations. We find that the WR emission complexes come solely from the subcluster A2, identified in previous HST imaging, and are absent from the main cluster A1, thus resolving the question of whether the WR and RSG features arise in a single or distinct clusters. The equivalent widths of the WR features in A2 --- including the CIV 5808 complex which we detect in this object for the first time --- are larger than previously observed in other WR galaxies. Models with sub-solar metallicity, as inferred from the nebular emission lines of this galaxy, predict much lower equivalent widths. On the ``clean'' side of A1, opposite to A2, we find no evidence for radial gradients in the observed stellar population at 0.05"

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