A VLT/FLAMES study of the peculiar intermediate-age large magellanic cloud star cluster NGC 1846. I. Kinematics

Mackey, Alasdair; Da Costa, Gary; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Yong, David

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A VLT/FLAMES study of the peculiar intermediate-age large magellanic cloud star cluster NGC 1846. I. Kinematics

Date

2013

Authors

Mackey, Alasdair

Da Costa, Gary

Ferguson, A. M. N.

Yong, David

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

In this paper we present high-resolution VLT/FLAMES observations of red giant stars in the massive intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1846, which, on the basis of its extended main-sequence turnoff (EMSTO), possesses an internal age