This project involves the analysis of star clusters within the NGC 1300 galaxy, using photometric data and theoretical evolutionary tracks to classify clusters by age and symmetry. The analysis also includes overlaying young, middle-aged, and old-aged clusters over CO moment maps from ALMA to study their distribution within the galaxy.
The same code can be used to study star clusters in other nearby galaxies, but this project illustrates NGC 1300 as an example.
- Introduction
- Usage
- Data Sources
- Results
- Contributor
This project aims to understand the properties and distributions of star clusters in the NGC 1300 galaxy. The analysis focuses on classifying star clusters into different age groups based on photometric data and examining their spatial distribution using CO moment maps.
Helps the user to gain basic knowledge about few data analysis techniques: Aperture Photometry, Color Magnitude diagrams and helps develop solid understanding about star clusters.
Please download the relavant data from the mentioned data sources and change the path to files according in the .ipynb file, since this code can be generalized to any galaxy, I shall not upload my data file.
The data used in this project was all taken from open source data archives like:
The thoeretical tracks used in the project has been uploaded in the data.zip file
The analysis of star clusters in NGC1300 revealed that:
- Young clusters (1-100 million years) are concentrated on the arms of the galaxy.
- Middle-aged clusters are found between the arms and the galactic center.
- Old-aged clusters are mostly concentrated at the center of the galaxy.
B M Manohara @Manohara-Ai