CCD photometry of young open clusters in Large Magellanic cloud : NGC 1712, NGC 1722 and NGC 1727.
Abstract
Color-magnitude diagrams of the young LMC open clusters NGC 1711, 1712, 1722, and 1727 shows that all of them are very young objects. NGC 1722 and 1727 contain a considerable amount of primordial diffused matter and their main sequences are practically unevolved. NGC 1712 is more evolved and its age is comparable to that of the young populous cluster NGC 1711. The approximate luminosity functions of NGC 1722 and 1727 are practically identical and different from the luminosity functions of NGC 1711 and 1712. This difference may be an evolutionary effect.
- Publication:
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Acta Astronomica
- Pub Date:
- 1990
- Bibcode:
- 1990AcA....40..355K
- Keywords:
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- Color-Magnitude Diagram;
- Galactic Clusters;
- Magellanic Clouds;
- Stellar Envelopes;
- Stellar Luminosity;
- Astronomical Photometry;
- Interstellar Matter;
- Stellar Evolution;
- Astrophysics