Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988mnras.230..215b&link_type=abstract
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (ISSN 0035-8711), vol. 230, Jan. 15, 1988, p. 215-221.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
64
Binary Stars, Early Stars, Magellanic Clouds, Spatial Distribution, Star Clusters, Collisions, Galactic Evolution, Stellar Evolution
Scientific paper
The authors have surveyed the LMC cluster system and have identified 69 double clusters with a centre-to-centre separation of less than ≡1.3 arcmin (≡18 pc). They infer that a considerable fraction of these double clusters must be binaries since the calculated projection effects can account for only 31 of them. This inference is strongly supported by the fact that the ages available for some of the clusters of the sample (as determined from UBV photometry) are less than the computed times of merger or disruption of the binary cluster system. Furthermore, the space distribution of these pairs indicates that these clusters belong to a very young or young population.
Bhatia Rajiv K.
Hatzidimitriou Despina
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