An assessment of broad-band optical colours as age indicators for star clusters

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 389, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1470-1478

  Hancock, M ^a   Smith, B J ^a   Giroux, M L ^a   Struck, C ^b  

^a EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: star clusters; Galaxies: stellar content; Methods: data analysis; Open clusters and associations: general

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; STARS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BROAD BANDS; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; GALAXIES: STAR CLUSTERS; GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; METHODS. DATA ANALYSIS; OPEN CLUSTERS; OPEN CLUSTERS AND ASSOCIATIONS: GENERAL; OPTICAL-; STAR CLUSTERS; STOCHASTIC SAMPLING;

COLOR;

EID: 51349093882     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13705.x     Document Type: Article

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