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New Cluster Candidates in Dwarf Galaxies of the Local Group

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Mario H. Pedreros
Affiliation:
Departamento de Física, Facultad de Ciencias, Univ. de Tarapacá, Casilla 7-D, Arica, Chile. e-mail: mpedrero@uta.cl
Carme Gallart
Affiliation:
Andes Fellow. Departamento de Astronomía, Univ. de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile and Department of Astronomy, Yale Univ., P.O. Box 208101, New Haven, CT 06520, USA, e-mail: cgallart@das.uchile.cl

Abstract

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V and I images of the nearby dIrr galaxies Sextans A and Sextans B were searched for star clusters. The candidates were selected, from a sample of non-stellar objects, on the basis of their morphology, their integrated colors and magnitudes. One of the candidates in Sextans A shows a few resolved stars whose location in the color-magnitude diagram indicates the cluster is at least older than 1 Gyr.

Type
Part 1. The Star Clusters of Local Group Galaxies
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2002 

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