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Kinematics and Velocity Ellipsoid of M Giants
Branham, R. L., Jr.
To study the kinematics of M giant stars (luminosity class III) use is made of 1,532 stars with proper motions taken from the Hipparcos catalog, of which 480 have radial velocities. Stars farther off than 700 pc were excluded because they induce a noticeable tilt in the distribution of the stars. Various solutions were performed, and the one calcu…
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…