Young stars between the Magellanic clouds. I - an association at 2 HRS 27 min, - 73 deg 59 min

Abstract

A CMD, based on deep CCD photometry of a poorly populated stellar association of about 85 pc in diameter and located nearly 7 deg to the east of the SMC and 14 deg from the LMC. An apparent distance modulus of 19.05 is determined from ZAMS fitting assuming that this is a system having Fe/H abundance = -0.65. The age of the association is estimated to be less than 100 million years. 38 refs.