The Age of the Large Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 1651
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- 1 July 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 483 (1) , L41-L44
- https://doi.org/10.1086/310727
Abstract
The age of NGC 1651 is 1.6 ± 0.4 billion yr. This letter shows that accurate age determinations of young LMC clusters are achievable with aperture photometry of Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) images taken in a single orbit of the HST.Keywords
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