LMC clusters - Age calibration and age distribution revisited

We re-examine the empirical age relation for star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud presented by Elson and Fall (1985), using ages based only on main-sequence turnoffs. Our sample includes 57 clusters, 24 of which have color-magnitude diagrams published since 1985. The new calibration is very similar to that found previously, and the scatter in the relation corresponds to uncertainties of about a factor of 2 in age. The age distribution derived from the new calibration does not differ significantly from that derived in our earlier work. We compare it with age distributions estimated by other authors for different samples of clusters, and discuss the results.