The cluster system of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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Sep 1990

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Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series (ISSN 0365-0138), vol. 84, no. 3, Sept. 1990, p. 527-547.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Astronomical Catalogs, Magellanic Clouds, Star Clusters, Star Formation, Line Of Sight, Photographic Plates, Schmidt Telescopes, Southern Sky

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A new catalog of clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud has been constructed from searches of the IIIa-J component of the ESO/SERC Southern Sky Atlas. The catalog contains coordinate and diameter measurements of 1762 clusters in a 25 deg x 25 deg area of sky centered on the LMC, but excluding the very crowded 3.5 sq deg region around the Bar. The distribution of these clusters appears as two superimposed elliptical systems. The higher density inner system extends over about 8 deg; the lower density outer system can be represented by a 13 deg x 10 deg disk inclined at 42 deg to the line of sight. There are suggestions of two weak 'arms' in the latter.

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