Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

NGC1818 unveils the origin of the extended main-sequence turn-off in young Magellanic Clouds clusters

  • Giacomo Cordoni,
  • Antonino P. Milone,
  • Anna F. Marino,
  • Michele Cignoni,
  • Edoardo P. Lagioia,
  • Marco Tailo,
  • Marília Carlos,
  • Emanuele Dondoglio,
  • Sohee Jang,
  • Anjana Mohandasan,
  • Maria V. Legnardi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31977-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The nature of young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds is debated. Here, the authors show an alternative approach that exploits data to exclude the presence of age differences greater than a few million years among cluster stars in a very young cluster.