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2016A&A...590A..50P - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 590A50-50 (2016/6-1)

Extended main sequence turn-offs in low mass intermediate-age clusters.

PIATTI A.E. and BASTIAN N.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an imaging analysis of four low mass stellar clusters (<=5000M☉) in the outer regions of the LMC in order to shed light on the extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) phenomenon observed in high mass clusters. The four clusters have ages between 1-2Gyr and two of them appear to host eMTSOs. The discovery of eMSTOs in such low mass clusters - more than 5 times less massive than the eMSTO clusters previously studied - suggests that mass is not the controlling factor in whether clusters host eMSTOs. Additionally, the narrow extent of the eMSTO in the two older clusters (∼2Gyr) is in agreement with predictions of the stellar rotation scenario, as lower mass stars are expected to be magnetically braked, meaning that their colour magnitude diagrams should be better reproduced by canonical simple stellar populations. We also performed a structural analysis on all the clusters and found that a large core radius is not a requisite for a cluster to exhibit an eMSTO.

Abstract Copyright: © ESO, 2016

Journal keyword(s): techniques: photometric - Magellanic Clouds - galaxies: individual: LMC

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/A+A/590/A50): table2.dat table3.dat table4.dat table5.dat>

Simbad objects: 9

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