SEARCHING FOR COMPACT STAR CLUSTERS IN M81 USING HST/ACS IMAGES

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Santiago-Cortes, M. [1 ]
Mayya, Y. D. [1 ]
Rosa-Gonzalez, D. [1 ]
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[1] Inst Nacl Astrofis Opt & Electr, Puebla, Mexico
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LONG WALK THROUGH ASTRONOMY: A CELEBRATION OF LUIS CARRASCO'S 60TH BIRTHDAY | 2010年 / 37卷
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catalogs; galaxies: individual (M81); galaxies: star clusters; LUMINOSITY FUNCTION; GALAXIES; DISK;
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P1 [天文学];
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We study the stellar cluster population in M81, using the HST/ACS images in the filters F435W, F606W and F814W that cover a total field of view of similar to 140 arcmin(2). We present details about the selection criteria, which were based both on morphological and photometrical features. The extracted sample of stellar clusters shows the presence of two cluster populations, a blue cluster group (young) with 560 objects, and a red cluster group (old) with 120 objects. The young group lacks clusters more massive than 10(4) M-circle dot, that are present in large numbers in its neighbor M82. The luminosity distribution function of the young group follows a power-law distribution with alpha = 2.0, whereas that for the red group resembles very much the globular cluster luminosity function in the Milky Way. Assuming an age of 5 Gyr, these red clusters have masses between 10(5) and 10(7) M-circle dot.
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