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Large-scaleU andB plates obtained with the 2 m Ritchey-Chrétien telescope of the Rozhen Observatory (Bulgaria) were searched for new resolved star groups and for independent delineation of the boundaries of the known ones in M31. We detected 210 groups as real O-associations the mean diameter of which is 80 pc. Many of Hodge's open clusters are also reclassified as O-associations. The majority of van den Bergh's OB-associations were recognized as star complexes and their mean diameter is 650 pc. Almost all O-associations are located inside the star complexes. A dozen of new star complexes (mainly around the dark lanes between OB78 and OB22) and numerous groups presumably not containing O-stars were found out. The nature of these groups has to be object of further investigations. Young star groups closer than 3 kpc to the center of M31 were not identified.
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Efremov, Y.N., Ivanov, G.R. & Nikolov, N.S. Star complexes and associations in the Andromeda galaxy. Astrophys Space Sci 135, 119–130 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00644467
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