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Mass to light ratios of Large Magellanic Cloud clusters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Mario Mateo ,
Douglas Welch  and
Phil Fischer
Mario Mateo
Affiliation:
The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, USA
Douglas Welch
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada
Phil Fischer
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON L8S 4M1, Canada

Abstract

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The massive star clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are ideal laboratories for the study of the dynamical evolution of rich stellar systems. Not only do they contain large numbers of stars but, unlike the Galactic globular clusters, LMC clusters span a large range in age. Here we describe a continuing project to determine the temporal evolution of the mass-to-light (M/L) ratio of LMC clusters and present some preliminary results.

Type
Star Formation and Clustering
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 148: The Magellanic Clouds , 1991 , pp. 191 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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