Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the central star forming region in NGC 1140 1

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Jul 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aj....108...84h&link_type=abstract

The Astronomical Journal, vol. 108, no. 1, p. 84-89

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

67

Astronomical Photometry, Globular Clusters, Hubble Space Telescope, Image Processing, Stellar Evolution, Morphology, Red Giant Stars, Stellar Color, Stellar Luminosity

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We present broadband images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Planetary Camera of the central supergiant H II region in the amorphous galaxy NGC 1140. These images allow observations to a resolution of about 13 pc at the galaxy, and they reveal that its central 1/2 kpc contains 6-7 blue, luminous, compact super star clusters, many of which would be comparable in luminosity to globular clusters at the same age. A blue arc-shaped structure near the center may be a grouping of less luminous, R136/NGC 2070-sized clusters or a sheet of OB stars. Additional somewhat less luminous and redder clusters are also found farther out from the center. If these clusters are older, they too could have had luminosities comparable to those of the central six clusters at a comparable age. Thus, we find that NGC 1140 is remarkable in the number of extreme clusters that it has formed recently in a relatively small area of the galaxy. Since NGC 1140 exhibits global characteristics that are consistent with a recent merger, these clusters are likely to be a product of that event. This galaxy adds to the number of cases where rapid star formation has evidently produced super star clusters.

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