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The sub-solar initial mass function in the Large Magellanic Cloud†

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

Dimitrios A. Gouliermis
Dimitrios A. Gouliermis*
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Königstuhl 17, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany email: [email protected]
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The Magellanic Clouds offer a unique variety of star forming regions seen as bright nebulae of ionized gas, related to bright young stellar associations. Nowadays, observations with the high resolving efficiency of the Hubble Space Telescope allow the detection of the faintest infant stars, and a more complete picture of clustered star formation in our dwarf neighbors has emerged. I present results from our studies of the Magellanic Clouds, with emphasis in the young low-mass pre-main sequence populations. Our data include imaging with the Advanced Camera for Surveys of the association LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the deepest observations ever taken with HST of this galaxy. I discuss our findings in terms of the initial mass function, which we constructed with an unprecedented completeness down to the sub-solar regime, as the outcome of star formation in the low-metallicity environment of the LMC.

Keywords

Magellanic Cloudsgalaxies: star clustersopen clusters and associations: individual (NGC 346, NGC 602, LH 52, LH 95)stars: evolutionstars: pre–main-sequencestars: luminosity functionmass function
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S256: The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies , July 2008 , pp. 250 - 255
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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