A Young Star Cluster in the Leo a Galaxy
We report a serendipitous discovery of a star cluster in the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A. Young age (~28 Myr) and low mass (~510 M⊙) estimates are based on the isochrone fit assuming a metallicity derived for HII regions (Z = 0.0007). The color-magnitude diagrams of the stars, located in and around...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2015-09-01
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| Series: | Open Astronomy |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/astro-2017-0229 |
| Summary: | We report a serendipitous discovery of a star cluster in the dwarf irregular galaxy Leo A. Young age (~28 Myr) and low mass (~510 M⊙) estimates are based on the isochrone fit assuming a metallicity derived for HII regions (Z = 0.0007). The color-magnitude diagrams of the stars, located in and around the cluster area, and the results of aperture photometry of the cluster itself are presented. |
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| ISSN: | 2543-6376 |