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Star Counts in Fields Surrounding the LMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

M.T. Brück
M.T. Brück*
Affiliation:
Department of Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh EH9 3HJ

Abstract

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Star counts in a number of fields near the Large Magellanic Cloud have shown a maximum extension of about 10° for the faint stars. The luminosity function in the outer regions of the LMC is consistent with an intermediate age population.

Type
Evolution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 108: Structure and Evolution of the Magellanic Clouds , 1984 , pp. 97 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1984 

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