Hostname: page-component-7c8c6479df-27gpq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-03-29T14:09:18.852Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Star Cluster Encounters in the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

M.R. de Oliveria
Affiliation:
Institute de Fisica - UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
H. Dottori
Affiliation:
Institute de Fisica - UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil
E. Bica
Affiliation:
Institute de Fisica - UFRGS, Caixa Postal 15051, CEP 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

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.

The study of star cluster pairs in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) has been explored extensively in the past years (Bhatia & Hatzidimitriou 1988; Rodrigues et al. 1994; de Oliveira et al. 1998). The evolution of these pairs can provide fundamental insight into the past history of cluster formation in the MCs.

We have selected MC clusters (Bica & Schmitt 1995; Bica et al. 1998) with morphologies resembling those of the present models. The images in this selection of pairs were obtained from the Digital Sky Survey (DSS). We have also performed N-body simulations of star cluster encounters under different initial conditions, with the total number of particles per simulation ranging from 1024 to 20480.

Type
Part 6. Stellar Clusters
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

References

Bhatia, R.K., & Hatzidimitriou, D. 1988, MNRAS, 230, 215 CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bica, E., & Schmitt, H. 1995, ApJS, 54, 33 Google Scholar
Bica, E., Schmitt, H., Dutra, C.M., & Oliveira, H.L. 1999, AJ, 117, 238 Google Scholar
de Oliveira, M.R., Dottori, H., & Bica, E. 1998, MNRAS, 295, 921 Google Scholar
Rodrigues, I., Rodriguez, A., Schmitt, H., Dottori, H., & Bica, E. 1994, Proceedings of the IIIrd ESO/CTIO Workshop on The Local Group: Comparative and Global Properties , (eds.) Layden, A., Smith, R.C. & Storm, J. Google Scholar