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Young Magellanic Cloud Clusters (< 1 Gyr): Census, Properties, Star Formation History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Eva K. Grebel ,
Dennis Zaritsky ,
Jason Harris  and
Ian Thompson
Eva K. Grebel
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Dennis Zaritsky
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Jason Harris
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory, UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Ian Thompson
Affiliation:
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA

Abstract

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We report preliminary results from an automated cluster survey of the Magellanic Clouds aimed at improving the cluster census and at deriving cluster properties from their resolved stellar content. The survey is tripling the number of known clusters. The cluster age distribution shows similar peaks at 100–200 Myr in LMC and SMC, coincident with the closest encounter of the Clouds and perigalacticon.

Type
Part 6. Stellar Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 405 - 409
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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