Mass segregation in young compact star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: II. Mass Functions

Details Mass segregation in young compact star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: II. Mass Functions Mass segregation in young compact star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud: II. Mass Functions

2001-11-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0111312v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 245

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

16 pages, incl. 9 embedded postscript figures, MNRAS, resubmitted (referee's comments included)

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05218.x

We review the complications involved in the conversion of stellar luminosities into masses and apply a range of mass-to-luminosity relations to our Hubble Space Telescope observations of the young LMC star clusters NGC 1805 and NGC 1818. Both the radial dependence of the mass function (MF) and the dependence of the cluster core radii on mass indicate clear mass segregation in both clusters at radii r <= 20-30'', for masses in excess of ~1.6-2.5 Msun. This result does not depend on the mass range used to fit the slopes or the metallicity assumed. It is clear that the cluster MFs, at any radius, are not simple power laws. The global and the annular MFs near the core radii appear to be characterised by similar slopes in the mass range (-0.15 <= log m/Msun <= 0.85), the MFs beyond r >= 30'' have significantly steeper slopes. We estimate that while the NGC 1818 cluster core is between ~5 and ~30 crossing times old, the core of NGC 1805 is likely $\lesssim 3-4$ crossing times old. However, since strong mass segregation is observed out to ~6 Rcore and ~3 Rcore in NGC 1805 and NGC 1818, respectively, it is most likely that significant primordial mass segregation was present in both clusters, particularly in NGC 1805.

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