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Determination of the IMF in the LMC Stellar Cluster NGC 2156

Silva-Villa, E.; Sirianni, M.; Zuluaga, J.

We present a study on the IMF of the stellar cluster NGC 2156 in the LMC from deep HST-WFPC2 images in the bands F555W and F814W. The study is part of a larger program to investigate whether the IMF at low stellar masses is dependent on local conditions by observing young globular clusters in the LMC and the SMC. We detected stars down to a limiti…