Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-jkksz Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T03:28:24.704Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Field Studies, Luminosity Functions, and Star Formation History in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

L. L. Stryker
L. L. Stryker*
Affiliation:
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, B.C. Canada, V8X 4M6

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

One of the most fundamental questions we might ask about galaxies is, Do all galaxies have the same age? A less general question, and one which we can surely succeed in answering is, Are the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) the same age as the Galaxy? We must also make clear what is meant by the same age if, in fact, star forming activities in these systems have proceeded along different timescales. The age of a system can be masked if the strongest star-forming epoch was not coincident with the initial epoch. Deep colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) and luminosity functions (LFs) have had to wait until the advent of large southern telescopes, sensitive emulsions and detectors, and accurate methods of measuring crowded images.

Type
Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 108: Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds , 1984 , pp. 79 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

References

Brück, M.T.: 1978, Astron. Astrophys. 68, 181.Google Scholar
Brück, M.T.: 1980, Astron. Astrophys. 87, 92.Google Scholar
Brück, M.T.: 1982, in Compendium in Astronomy, eds. Mariolopoulos, E. G. et al. (Dordrecht: Reidel), p. 297.Google Scholar
Brück, M.T., & Marsoglu, A.: 1978, Astron. Astrophys. 68, 193. (18)Google Scholar
Butcher, H.R.: 1977, Astrophys. J. 216, 372. (8)Google Scholar
Flower, P., Geisler, D., Hodge, P., & Olszewski, E.: 1980, Astrophys. J. 235, 769. (12) Google Scholar
Flower, P., Geisler, D., Hodge, P., Olszewski, E., & Schommer, R.: 1983, Astrophys. J., (in press). (5) Google Scholar
Frogel, J.A., & Blanco, V.C.: 1983, Astrophys. J. Letters, (in press). (FB) (3) Google Scholar
Gascoigne, S.C.B.: 1966, Monthly Notices Roy. Astron. Soc. 134, 59.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hardy, E.: 1978, Pub. Astron. Soc. Pacific 90, 132.Google Scholar
Hardy, E., & Durand, D.: 1983, (preprint). (16) Google Scholar
Hardy, E., Melnick, J., & Rheault, C.: 1980, in IAU Symp. 85, ed. Hesser, J.E. (Dordrecht: Reidel), p. 343. (13)Google Scholar
Hardy, E., Buonnano, R., Corsi, C., Janes, K., & Schommer, R.: 1983, Astrophys. J., (in press). (2) Google Scholar
Hawkins, M.R.S., & Brück, M.T.: 1982, MNRAS 198, 935. (17) Google Scholar
Hawkins, M.R.S., & Brück, M.T.: 1984, this volume, p. 101. (21)Google Scholar
Hodge, P.: 1961, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 6, 235.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hodge, P.: 1983, Astrophys. J. 264, 470.Google Scholar
Lindgren, H., Ardeberg, A., Linde, P., & Lyngå, G.: 1980, in Proc. of ESO Workshop on 2-Dim. Photometry, eds Crane, P. & Kjar, K., p. 155 (4) Google Scholar
Mould, J.R., Da Costa, G.S., & Crawford, M.D.: 1983, (preprint) (22) Google Scholar
Muller, A.B.: 1971, ed “The Magellanic Clouds”, (Dordrecht: Reidel).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Nemec, J.M., Liller, M.H., & Hesser, J.E.: 1984, this volume, p. 39.Google Scholar
Olszewski, E.: 1982, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Washington. (6)Google Scholar
Rocca-Volmerange, B.: 1983, “First Stellar Generations”, Frascati Workshop, Mem. della Soc. Ast. Italiana, (in press).Google Scholar
Salpeter, E.: 1955, Astrophys. J. 121, 161.Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L.: 1981, Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University. (9)Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L.: 1984, Astrophys. J., (in press). (15) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L.: 1983, (in preparation). (7) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., & Butcher, H.R.: 1981, in IAU Coll. 68, eds. Philip, A.G.D. & Hayes, D.S. (Schenectady: Davis), p. 255. (10) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., & Nemec, J.M.: 1983, (in preparation). (20) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., & VandenBerg, D.A.: 1983, (in preparation). (SV) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., Butcher, H.R., & Jewell, J.L.: 1981, in IAU Coll. 68, eds. Philip, A.G.D. & Hayes, D.S. (Schenectady: Davis), p. 267 (14) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., Da Costa, G.S., & Mould, J.R.: 1983, (in prep.) (19) Google Scholar
Stryker, L.L., Nemec, J.M., Hesser, J.E., & McClure, R.D.: 1984, this volume, p. 43. (11)Google Scholar
Tifft, W.: 1964, IAU/URSI Symp. 20, eds Kerr, F.J. & Rodgers, A.W. (Canberra: Austral. Acad. Sci.) p. 349.Google Scholar
Tifft, W., & Snell, C.: 1971, MNRAS 151, 365. (TS) (1) Google Scholar
VandenBerg, D.A.: 1983, Astrophys. J. Suppl. 51, 29.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Vaucouleurs, G., & Freeman, K.: 1972, in Vistas Astron. 14, 163.Google Scholar
Westerlund, B.E.: 1970, in Vistas Astron. 12, 335.Google Scholar