GTC long-slit spectroscopy of compact stellar clusters in M81

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2011-03-26

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5101v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics

To appear in the Proceedings of the XIII Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, RevMexAA (SC)

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We here present the ages of four compact stellar clusters (CSCs) in the nearby spiral galaxy M81, using long-slit optical spectra obtained with the 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC). All the four CSCs, including the brightest in this galaxy, are found to have ages between 5 to 6 Myr, with one of them showing Wolf-Rayet spectral features. The photometric masses of these clusters, calculated using their spectroscopically-derived ages, lie between 3000 and 18000 Msun. The observed clusters are among the brightest objects, and hence the most massive, in the entire disk of M81. This implies the absence of massive (1.0e5 Msun) compact stellar clusters in M81.

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