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The Older Clusters in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

S.C.B. Gascoigne
S.C.B. Gascoigne*
Affiliation:
Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, Research School of Physical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra

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We begin with Fig. 1, which somewhat aged though it may be still illustrates important aspects of the subject (Gascoigne 1971)

  1. (i) There is a clear division of cloud clusters into a blue and red group. The division corresponds to the mass around 2.51M⊙, at which core degeneracy first develops in stars approaching the giant branch. Such stars spend about three times as long on the giant branch and travel higher up it than the slightly heavier non-degenerate stars, and so dominate the colours of the clusters in which they occur.

  2. (ii) The red clusters are somewhat less luminous than the globular clusters in the galaxy. Freeman and Chun (1972) have shown from dynamic arguments that the cloud clusters are also less massive, by enough to keep the M/L ratios roughly the same as those in the galaxy.

  3. (iii) For a long time it has been taken that the blue clusters are young and the red clusters old. Thus the clouds present us with a truly two-parameter family of globular-like clusters, the parameters being of course age and abundance.

Type
August 29 Open And Globular Clusters
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 85: Star Clusters , 1980 , pp. 305 - 315
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1980 

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