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Hollyhead, K, Adamo, A, Bastian, N, Gieles, M and Ryon, J (2016) Properties of the cluster population of NGC 1566 and their implications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
We present results of a photometric study into the cluster population of NGC 1566, a nearby grand design spiral galaxy, sampled out to a Galactocentric radius of $\approx 5.5$ kpc. The shape of the mass-limited age distribution shows negligible variation with radial distance from the centre of the galaxy, and demonstrates three separate sections, with a steep beginning, flat middle and steep end. The luminosity function can be approximated by a power law at lower luminosities with evidence of a truncation at higher luminosity. The power law section of the luminosity function of the galaxy is best fitted by an index $\approx -2$, in agreement with other studies, and is found to agree with a model luminosity function, which uses an underlying Schechter mass function. The recovered power law slope of the mass distribution shows a slight steepening as a function of galactocentric distance, but this is within error estimates. It also displays a possible truncation at the high mass end. Additionally, the cluster formation efficiency ($\Gamma$) and the specific U-band luminosity of clusters ($T_L(U)$) are calculated for NGC 1566 and are consistent with values for similar galaxies. A difference in NGC 1566, however, is that the fairly high star formation rate is in contrast with a low $\Sigma_{SFR}$ and $\Gamma$, indicating that $\Gamma$ can only be said to depend strongly on $\Sigma_{SFR}$, not the star formation rate.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society following peer review. The version of record is available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1142 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | astro-ph.GA; astro-ph.GA |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date of acceptance: | 11 May 2016 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 May 2016 |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2016 12:24 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 12:55 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3628 |
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