The posteruptive galaxy NGC 5253.
Abstract
The peculiar galaxy NGC 5253 has been found to be embedded in a swarm of at least 50 bright star clusters. It is suggested that these clusters are fossil evidence for a recent burst of star formation. The hypothesis that NGC 5253 was very much more luminous in the recent past than it is at the present time provides a natural explanation for the unusually high supernova frequency that is observed in this galaxy.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- April 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1086/130631
- Bibcode:
- 1980PASP...92..122V
- Keywords:
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- Galaxies;
- Peculiar Galaxies;
- Star Clusters;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Stellar Spectra;
- Emission Spectra;
- Line Spectra;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Telescopes;
- Astrophysics