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Catalog Service:
Ages and masses for 920 LMC clusters

Short name: J/ApJ/751/122
IVOA Identifier: ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/751/122
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): 10.26093/cds/vizier.17510122
Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/751/122
VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Status: active
Registered: 2014 Feb 13 16:35:56Z
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Description


We present new age and mass estimates for 920 stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on previously published broadband photometry and the stellar cluster analysis package, MASSCLEANage. Expressed in the generic fitting formula, d^2^N/dMdt{prop.to}M^{alpha}^t^{beta}^, the distribution of observed clusters is described by {alpha}=-1.5 to -1.6 and {beta}=-2.1 to -2.2. For 288 of these clusters, ages have recently been determined based on stellar photometric color-magnitude diagrams, allowing us to gauge the confidence of our ages. The results look very promising, opening up the possibility that this sample of 920 clusters, with reliable and consistent age, mass, and photometric measures, might be used to constrain important characteristics about the stellar cluster population in the LMC. We also investigate a traditional age determination method that uses a {chi}^2^ minimization routine to fit observed cluster colors to standard infinite-mass limit simple stellar population models. This reveals serious defects in the derived cluster age distribution using this method. The traditional {chi}^2^ minimization method, due to the variation of U, B, V, R colors, will always produce an overdensity of younger and older clusters, with an underdensity of clusters in the log(age/yr)=[7.0,7.5] range. Finally, we present a unique simulation aimed at illustrating and constraining the fading limit in observed cluster distributions that includes the complex effects of stochastic variations in the observed properties of stellar clusters.

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Publisher: CDSivo://CDS[Pub. ID]

Creators:
Popescu B.Hanson M.M.Elmegreen B.G.

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Version: n/a
Availability: This is an active resource.
  • This service provides only public data.
Relevant dates for this Resource:
  • Updated: 2017 Sep 27 05:55:48Z
  • Created: 2014 Feb 13 16:35:56Z

This resource was registered on: 2014 Feb 13 16:35:56Z
This resource description was last updated on: 2021 Oct 21 00:00:00Z

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Resource Class: CatalogService
This resource is a service that provides access to catalog data. You can extract data from the catalog by issuing a query, and the matching data is returned as a table.
Resource type keywords:
  • Catalog
Subject keywords:
  • Open star clusters
  • Magellanic Clouds
  • Photometry
  • Optical astronomy
  • Wide-band photometry
  • Infrared photometry
Intended audience or use:
  • Research: This resource provides information appropriate for supporting scientific research.
More Info: https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJ/751/122 Literature Reference: 2012ApJ...751..122P

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II/236 : UBVR CCD survey of the Magellanic clouds (Massey+, 2002) ivo://CDS.VizieR/II/236 [Res. ID]

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  • Optical
  • Infrared

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Custom Service

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VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
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Custom Service

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VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for this service interface:
  • URL-based interface: http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/votable?-source=J/ApJ/751/122
Table Access Protocol - Auxiliary ServiceXX

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input an ADQL or PQL query and returns tabular data.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://tapvizier.cds.unistra.fr/TAPVizieR/tap
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/751/122/table2 (Age and mass determination for 632 LMC clusters)
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/751/122/table2?
Maximum search radius accepted: 180.0 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 50000
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.
Simple Cone SearchXXSearch Me

This is a standard IVOA service that takes as input a position in the sky and a radius and returns catalog records with positions within that radius.

VO Compliance: Level 2: This is a VO-compliant resource.
Description:
Cone search capability for table J/ApJ/751/122/table1 (Age and mass determination for 288 LMC clusters with CMD age)
Available endpoints for the standard interface:
  • http://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/conesearch/J/ApJ/751/122/table1?
Maximum search radius accepted: 180.0 degrees
Maximum number of matching records returned: 50000
This service supports the VERB input parameter:
Use VERB=1 to minimize the returned columns or VERB=3 to maximize.


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