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Old and intermediate populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

W. G. Tifft
W. G. Tifft*
Affiliation:
Lowell Observatory

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It is becoming increasingly evident that the older stellar components of the Magellanic Clouds are significantly younger, on the average, than the old star component of the Galaxy. Magellanic Cloud red globular-like clusters of the NGC 419 variety, and the common field stars of similar type, are almost certainly to be classified as intermediate-age populations by galactic standards. The oldest galactic population, seen in the galactic halo, globular clusters, and oldest galactic clusters, is apparently very sparse in the Magellanic Clouds, although in the SMC at least something very similar is seen in and near NGC 121.

Type
Section II: The Magellanic Clouds
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 20: The Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds , 1964 , pp. 349 - 354
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Academy of Science 1964