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IOP Publishing, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 771(112), p. 594-598

DOI: 10.1086/316571

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C32, A Young Star Cluster in IC 1613

Journal article published in 2000 by Ted K. Wyder, Paul W. Hodge, Andrew Cole ORCID
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.

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Abstract

The Local Group irregular galaxy IC 1613 has remained an enigma for many years because of its apparent lack of star clusters. We report the successful search for clusters among several of the candidate objects identified many years ago on photographic plates. We have used a single HST WFPC2 pointing and a series of images obtained with the WIYN telescope under exceptional seeing conditions, examining a total of 23 of the previously published candidates. All but six of these objects were found to be either asterisms or background galaxies. Five of the six remaining candidates possibly are small, sparse clusters and the sixth, C32, is an obvious cluster. It is a compact, young object, with an age of less than 10 million years and a total absolute magnitude of M_V = -5.78+/-0.16 within a radius of 13 pc. ; Comment: 5 pages, 5 figures, to be published in the May 2000 issue of the PASP