Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
to appear in A&A (final version - error analysis included, typos corrected, figures 17 and 18 changed)
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20020742
This study aims at identifying and understanding the parent population of novae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by studying the local, projected, stellar population. The star formation history of the local environment around novae is studied based on photometric data of stars and star clusters in the nova neighbourhood, available in the OGLE II survey and star cluster catalogues. The ages of stellar population within a few arcmin around novae regions are estimated using isochrone fits to the V vs (V-I) colour-magnitude diagrams. The fraction of stars in various evolutionary states are compared using luminosity functions of the main-sequence stars and the red giant stars. The age, density and luminosity function of the stellar population are estimated around 15 novae. The upper limit of the age of the intermediate stellar population is found to be 4 Gyr in all the regions, excepting the region around the slow nova LMC 1948. Star formation in these regions is found to have started between 4 - 2.0 Gyr, with a majority of the regions starting the star formation at 3.2 Gyr. This star formation event lasted until 1.6 - 0.8 Gyr The star formation history of the underlying population of both the fast and moderately fast novae indicate their parent population to be similar and likely to be in the age range 3.2 - 1.0 Gyr. This is in good agreement with the theoretical age estimates for Galactic cataclysmic variables. The region around the slow nova shows a stellar population in the age range 1 - 10 Gyr, with a good fraction belonging to an older population, consistent with the idea that the progenitors of slow novae belong to older population.
Anupama G. C.
Subramaniam Annapurni
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