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Cook, D. O.; Lee, J. C.; Adamo, A.; Kim, H.; Chandar, R.; Whitmore, B. C.; Mok, A.; Ryon, J. E.; Dale, D. A.; Calzetti, D.; Andrews, J. E.; Aloisi, A.; Ashworth, G.; Bright, S. N.; Brown, T. M.; Christian, C.; Cignoni, M.; Clayton, G. C.; da Silva, R.; de Mink, S. E.; Dobbs, C. L.; Elmegreen, B. G.; Elmegreen, D. M.; Evans, A. S.; Fumagalli, M.; Gallagher, J. S.; Gouliermis, D. A.; Grasha, K.; Grebel, E. K.; Herrero, A.; Hunter, D. A.; Jensen, E. I.; Johnson, K. E.; Kahre, L.; Kennicutt, R. C.; Krumholz, M. R.; Lee, N. J.; Lennon, D.; Linden, S.; Martin, C.; Messa, M.; Nair, P.; Nota, A.; Östlin, G.; Parziale, R. C.; Pellerin, A.; Regan, M. W.; Sabbi, E.; Sacchi, E.; Schaerer, D.; Schiminovich, D.; Shabani, F.; Slane, F. A.; Small, J.; Smith, C. L.; Smith, L. J.; Taibi, S.; Thilker, D. A.; de la Torre, I. C.; Tosi, M.; Turner, J. A.; Ubeda, L.; Van Dyk, S. D.; Walterbos, R. AM; Wofford, A.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 484, Issue 4, p.4897-4919
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2019
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Description
We present the star cluster catalogues for 17 dwarf and irregular
galaxies in the HST Treasury Program `Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey'
(LEGUS). Cluster identification and photometry in this sub-sample are
similar to that of the entire LEGUS sample, but special methods were
developed to provide robust catalogues with accurate fluxes due to low
cluster statistics. The colours and ages are largely consistent for two
widely used aperture corrections, but a significant fraction of the
clusters are more compact than the average training cluster. However,
the ensemble luminosity, mass, and age distributions are consistent
suggesting that the systematics between the two methods are less than
the random errors. When compared with the clusters from previous dwarf
galaxy samples, we find that the LEGUS catalogues are more complete and
provide more accurate total fluxes. Combining all clusters into a
composite dwarf galaxy, we find that the luminosity and mass functions
can be described by a power law with the canonical index of -2
independent of age and global SFR binning. The age distribution declines
as a power law, with an index of ≈- 0.80 ± 0.15, independent
of cluster mass and global SFR binning. This decline of clusters is
dominated by cluster disruption since the combined star formation
histories and integrated-light SFRs are both approximately constant over
the last few hundred Myr. Finally, we find little evidence for an
upper-mass cut-off (<2σ) in the composite cluster mass
function, and can rule out a truncation mass below
≈104.5M⊙ but cannot rule out the existence
of a truncation at higher masses.
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