J/ApJ/681/290 HST/ACS photometry in the SMC (Schmalzl+, 2008)
The initial mass function of the stellar association NGC 602 in the Small
Magellanic Cloud with Hubble Space Telescope ACS observations.
Schmalzl M., Gouliermis D.A., Dolphin A.E., Henning T.
<Astrophys. J., 681, 290-302 (2008)>
=2008ApJ...681..290S 2008ApJ...681..290S
ADC_Keywords: Associations, stellar ; Photometry, HST ; Magellanic Clouds
Keywords: galaxies: star clusters - Magellanic Clouds - stars: evolution -
open clusters and associations: individual (NGC 602) -
stars: luminosity function, mass function - stars: pre-main sequence
Abstract:
We present our photometric study of the stellar association NGC 602 in
the wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The data were taken in
the filters F555W and F814W using the Advanced Camera for Surveys
(ACS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Photometry was
performed using the ACS module of the stellar photometry package
DOLPHOT. We detected more than 5500 stars with a magnitude range of
14≲m555≲28mag. Three prominent stellar concentrations are
identified with star counts in the observed field, the association NGC
602 itself, and two clusters, one of them not being currently in any
known catalog. The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of both clusters
show features typical for young open clusters, while that of the
association reveals bright main-sequence (MS) and faint
pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars as the members of the system.
Description:
The data used in our analysis are obtained with the Wide Field Channel
(WFC) of the ACS within the HST GO Program 10248 on July 14 and July
18 2004. Images are taken in the F555W and F814W filters. A single
ACS/WFC pointing covering ∼3.4'x3.4' was centered on NGC 602/LHA
115-N90. At the distance of the SMC this field of view (FOV)
corresponds to an extent of ∼57x57pc.
File Summary:
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FileName Lrecl Records Explanations
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 64 5626 Photometric catalog of stars found in this study
in the region of NGC 602 with HST/ACS imaging
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See also:
B/hst : HST Archived Exposures Catalog (STScI, 2007)
J/ApJ/672/914 : HST photometry in NGC 346 (Hennekemper+, 2008)
J/AJ/130/1083 : HST photometry in the wing of the SMC (McCumber+, 2005)
J/A+A/347/841 : HST Observations of SMC N88A (Heydari-Malayeri+, 1999)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 5 I5 --- Seq Star number (<Cl* NGC 602 SGD NNNN> in
Simbad)
7- 8 I2 h RAh Hour of Right Ascension (J2000)
10- 11 I2 min RAm Minute of Right Ascension (J2000)
13- 18 F6.3 s RAs Second of Right Ascension (J2000)
20 A1 --- DE- Sign of the Declination (J2000)
21- 22 I2 deg DEd Degree of Declination (J2000)
24- 25 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of Declination (J2000)
27- 32 F6.3 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of Declination (J2000)
35- 40 F6.3 mag Vmag HST/ACS F555W (Vega) magnitude
44- 48 F5.3 mag e_Vmag 1σ error in Vmag
51- 56 F6.3 mag Imag HST/ACS F814W (Vega) magnitude
60- 64 F5.3 mag e_Imag 1σ error in Imag
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 26-Oct-2010