Newly Discovered Clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Abstract
Using a two-color series of ADH Schmidt plates covering the central 125 sq deg of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the author has carried out an extensive search for nonstellar obj ects belonging to (or superimposed upon) the Cloud that has resulted in the discovery of 455 new objects, nearly all of which are small open clusters. From a comparison of the catalogue of Shapley and Lindsay with that of Lynga and Westerlund; the author finds that there was a previously known total of 1146 clusters. The new objects increase this total to 1601, somewhat larger than the total number of known clusters of our own Galaxy. The projected distribution in space of these clusters is compared with that of other types of objects and with dynamical models.
- Publication:
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The Astronomical Journal
- Pub Date:
- 1966
- DOI:
- 10.1086/110130
- Bibcode:
- 1966AJ.....71S.164H