Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2010
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #216, #421.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.833
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
We present a study of 90 star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) galaxy, which have been studied using different age-estimation methods. Age estimations of distant star clusters have been a critical goal of extragalactic studies for decades because it provides us with quantitative measures for the star formation history of a galaxy. The challenge in achieving this goal is the great distance of extragalactic star clusters. Age estimates must rely on stellar population models to predict the integrated light characteristics. The LMC is uniquely positioned to compare its clusters that have previously been aged using both resolved (color-magnitude diagrams of the constituent stars) and unresolved methods (integrated photometry). Our goal is to compare several different methods for determining the ages of our sample of LMC stellar clusters, determine the reliability of integrated methods over a wide age and mass range, and test our hypothesis that the accuracy of photometric ages goes down with lower cluster mass.
Asa'D Randa
Hanson Margaret Murray
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