Astrophysical: Star clusters

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    The 100 Myr Star Formation History of NGC 5471 from Cluster and Resolved Stellar Photometry
    We show that star formation in the giant H II region NGC 5471 has been ongoing during the past 100 Myr. Using Hubble Space Telescope/Wide-Field Planetary Camera...
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    The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XI. The Three-dimensional Orientation of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy and Its Globular Clusters
    We use observations from the Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (HST/ACS) study of Galactic globular clusters to investigate the spatial...
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    The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters: M54 and Young Populations in the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
    As part of the ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters, we present new Hubble Space Telescope photometry of the massive globular cluster M54 (NGC 6715) and the...
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    The B-type Binaries Characterisation Programme - II. VFTS 291: a stripped star from a recent mass transfer phase
    Recent studies of massive binaries with putative black hole companions have uncovered a phase of binary evolution that has not been observed before, featuring a...
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    The Brightest Young Star Clusters in NGC 5253.
    The nearby dwarf starburst galaxy NGC 5253 hosts a number of young, massive star clusters, the two youngest of which are centrally concentrated and surrounded...
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    The central region of M83: massive star formation, kinematics, and the location and origin of the nucleus
    We report new near-IR integral field spectroscopy of the central starburst region of the barred spiral galaxy M83 obtained with Cambridge Infra-Red Panoramic...
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    The contribution to population in ellipticals of blue stragglers - A test of their origin
    An observational test of the binary hypothesis for the origin of the blue straggler (BS) stars has been performed searching for radial velocity variables among...
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    The embedded cluster IRAS17136 - 3617 associated with the nebulosity GM24
    Radio, infrared, and optical observations of the embedded infrared cluster IRAS17136 - 3617 are reviewed. The cluster consists of more than 25 stars with a...
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    The First Billion Years project: Finding infant globular clusters at z = 6
    Aims: We aim to conduct an assessment of the demographics of substructures in cosmological simulations to identify low-mass stellar systems at high redshift...