No evidence for younger stellar generations within the intermediate-age massive clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1806 and NGC 411

I. Cabrera-Ziri*, F. Niederhofer, N. Bastian, M. Rejkuba, E. Balbinot, W. E. Kerzendorf, S. S. Larsen, A. D. Mackey, E. Dalessandro, A. Mucciarelli, C. Charbonnel, M. Hilker, M. Gieles, V. Hénault-Brunet

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    Abstract

    Recently, Li et al. claimed to have found evidence for multiple generations of stars in the intermediate-age clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1806 and NGC 411 in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Here we show that these young stellar populations are present in the field regions around these clusters and are not likely associated with the clusters themselves. Using the same data sets, we find that the background subtraction method adopted by the authors does not adequately remove contaminating stars in the small number Poisson limit. Hence, we conclude that their results do not provide evidence of young generations of stars within these clusters.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)4218-4223
    Number of pages6
    JournalMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
    Volume459
    Issue number4
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 11 Jul 2016

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