Abstract Details

Name: neelam panwar
Affiliation: ARIES, Nainital
Conference ID: ASI2020_190
Title : Stellar and substellar mass objects in nearby clusters
Authors and Co-Authors : Manash Samal, A.K. Pandey
Abstract Type : Oral
Abstract Category : Stars, ISM and Galaxy
Abstract : The stellar and substellar mass function is an ubiquitous outcome of the star formation process. Young clusters are the best targets to study mass function towards substellar mass limit as they have roughly coeval population emerged from the same molecular cloud. However, detection  of substellar mass and hence estimation of the mass function towards substellar mass limit is challenging. The deep optical and infrared (IR) observations are needed to detect substellar mass members of young clusters. We will discuss the stellar/substellar mass function in nearby clusters and present  the results of our deep optical and near IR (NIR) observations of the cluster Berkeley 59 obtained with 3.6m  Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. Our NIR observations are deep enough to detect the substellar population of the cluster.