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The HST Census of Nuclear Star Clusters in Late-type Spirals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Torsten Böker
Torsten Böker*
Affiliation:
Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, U.S.A.

Abstract

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I describe preliminary results from an I-band snapshot survey with HST/WFPC2 of nuclear star clusters in late-type spiral galaxies. The goal of the program is to derive the fraction of galaxies that harbor a nuclear star cluster, and to analyse their photometric and structural properties. Together with follow-up spectroscopy, the survey will illuminate the formation mechanism of nuclear star clusters and the implications for the dynamical and morphological evolution of the host galaxy.

Type
Part 4. Star Cluster Formation and Evolution: Theory and Observation
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 207: Extragalactic Star Clusters , 2002 , pp. 706 - 707
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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