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most citedPHANGS-JWST First Results: Massive Young Star Clusters and New Insights from JWST Observations of NGC 1365

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astro-ph.GA2026

Star Cluster Populations in 38 Spiral Galaxies: Evidence for Near-Universal Mass and Age Distributions from PHANGS

Rupali Chandar, Matthew R. Floyd, David A. Thilker +23

We present the largest study to date of star cluster mass and age distributions in nearby galaxies. The analysis is based on a uniformly selected catalog of over 15,000 (36,000) hu…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Nowhere Left to Hide: Uncovering All of the Massive Young Embedded Star Clusters in the Antennae with JWST

Rupali Chandar, Miranda Caputo, Paul Goudfrooij +15

The Antennae galaxies merger produces the brightest infrared emission of any galaxy within ~20 Mpc, mostly from intense star formation taking place in supergiant molecular cloud co…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 1 cited

Clusters, Clumps, Dust, & Gas (CCDG) in NGC1614: Bench-marking Cluster Demographics in Extreme Systems

Miranda Caputo, Rupali Chandar, Angus Mok +3

Observations of young star clusters in a variety of galaxies have been used to constrain basic properties related to star-formation, such as the fraction of stars found in clusters…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

A Tale of 3 Dwarfs: No Extreme Cluster Formation in Extreme Star-Forming Galaxies

Rupali Chandar, Miranda Caputo, Angus Mok +8

Nearly all current simulations predict that outcomes of the star formation process, such as the fraction of stars that form in bound clusters (Gamma), depend on the intensity of st…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 11 cited

Arp 220: A Post-Starburst Galaxy With Little Star Formation Outside of It's Nuclear Disks

R. Chandar, M. Caputo, S. Linden +8

The ultra-luminous infrared galaxy Arp2 20 is a late-stage merger with several tidal structures in the outskirts and two very compact, dusty nuclei that show evidence for extreme s…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 27 cited

Improving Star Cluster Age Estimates in PHANGS-HST Galaxies and the Impact on Cluster Demographics in NGC 628

Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar, Janice C. Lee +29

A long-standing problem when deriving the physical properties of stellar populations is the degeneracy between age, reddening, and metallicity. When a single metallicity is used fo…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 48 cited

PHANGS-JWST First Results: Massive Young Star Clusters and New Insights from JWST Observations of NGC 1365

Bradley C. Whitmore, Rupali Chandar, M. Jimena Rodríguez +28

A primary new capability of JWST is the ability to penetrate the dust in star forming galaxies to identify and study the properties of young star clusters that remain embedded in d…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 3 cited

The Ancient Globular Clusters of NGC 1291

Kyle Hixenbaugh, Rupali Chandar, Angus Mok

We present a new catalog of 81 ancient globular clusters (GCs) in the early-type spiral (SB0/a) galaxy NGC 1291. Candidates have been selected from B,V, and I band images taken wit…