A new extended main-sequence turnoff star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
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عنوان ژورنال: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1365-2966,0035-8711
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stt054