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Star Clusters in the Magellanic Type Irr Galaxy NGC 4449

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Patrick Seitzer  and
Eva Grebel
Patrick Seitzer
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Dept. of Astronomy, 818 Dennison Bldg, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Eva Grebel
Affiliation:
Lick Observatory, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Abstract

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We compare the luminosity function of star clusters in the LMC and NGC 4449: a IBm/Sm type galaxy very similar in appearance and luminosity (MB = −18.5) to the LMC (MB = −18.4). The brightest of several hundred clusters in NGC 4449 have MV = −10 (assuming a distance of 3.9 Mpc), comparable to the brightest clusters in the LMC.

Type
Part 6. Stellar Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 190: New Views of the Magellanic Clouds , 1999 , pp. 468 - 469
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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