Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies

Larsen, Søren S.; Brodie, Jean P.; Hunter, Deidre A.; Richtler, Tom

doi:10.1007/1-4020-3539-X_38

Søren S. Larsen²⁵,
Jean P. Brodie²⁶,
Deidre A. Hunter²⁷ &
…
Tom Richtler²⁸

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Young star clusters with masses well in excess of 10⁵ M_⊙ have been observed not only in merging galaxies and large-scale starbursts, but also in fairly normal, undisturbed spiral and irregular galaxies. Here, we present virial mass estimates for a sample of 7 such clusters and show that the derived mass-to-light ratios are consistent with “normal” Kroupa-type stellar mass distributions.

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ESO / ST-ECF, Germany
Søren S. Larsen
UCO / Lick Observatory, USA
Jean P. Brodie
Lowell Observatory, USA
Deidre A. Hunter
Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Tom Richtler

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The University of Sheffield, UK
Richard De Grijs
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain
Rosa M. González Delgado

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Larsen, S.S., Brodie, J.P., Hunter, D.A., Richtler, T. (2005). Young Massive Clusters in Non-Interacting Galaxies. In: De Grijs, R., González Delgado, R.M. (eds) Starbursts. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 329. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3539-X_38

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