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Star Formation in NGC 5128

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Robert L. Pennington
Robert L. Pennington*
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota

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Star formation in the dust lane of NGC 5128 (Cen A) has been studied using digitized CTIO 4m plates. The digital images were calibrated to the standard U, B and V passbands using photoelectric photometry (van den Bergh 1976). Ages for the dominant stellar component were derived by de-reddening each pixel along an R = 3.3 reddening law to its intercept with a theoretical cluster evolution track in the U-B, B-V plane (Davis 1979). The HII regions of Hodge and Kennicutt (1983) were used as tracers for the most recent star formation.

Type
Poster Papers 3
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 116: Luminous Stars and Associations in Galaxies , 1986 , pp. 395 - 396
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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