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Using Hα morphology and surface brightness fluctuations to age-date star clusters in M83

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2011

Authors

Whitmore, Bradley
Chandar, Rupali
Kim, Hwihyun
Kaleida, Catherine
Mutchler, Max
Stankiewicz, Matt
Calzetti, Daniela
Saha, Abhijit
O'Connell, Robert W
Balick, Bruce

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IOP Publishing

Abstract

We use new WFC3 observations of the nearby grand-design spiral galaxy M83 to develop two independent methods for estimating the ages of young star clusters. The first method uses the physical extent and morphology of Hα emission to estimate the ages of c

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Keywords: galaxies: individual (M83); galaxies: star clusters: general; Hii regions; ISM: bubbles; stars: formation

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/66949

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ANU Research Publications

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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Journal article

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Open Access

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10.1088/0004-637X/729/2/78

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