Speaker
Ms
Zara Randriamanakoto
(Astronomy Department, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre, University of Cape Town)
Description
From a deep NIR adaptive optics imaging survey, we present thus-far the first K-band super star cluster (SSC) luminosity function (LF) to probe the formation and evolution of SSCs. Based on the derived LF one can constrain the cluster initial mass function (CIMF). Our preliminary results are in disagreement with theoretical expectations which suggest that SSC LFs should be well fitted by a single power law -2. We get power-law indices much shallower than the theoretically expected one.
Primary author
Ms
Zara Randriamanakoto
(Astronomy Department, Astrophysics, Cosmology and Gravity Centre, University of Cape Town)
Co-authors
Mr
Petri Vaisanen
(South African Astronomical Observatory)
Mr
Seppo Mattila
(Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku, Finland)
Mr
Stuart Ryder
(Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia)
