LH 95

{{Short description|H II region in the constellation Dorado}}

{{Infobox open cluster

| name = LH 95

| image = 300px

| caption = The stellar nursery LH 95, in the Large Magellanic Cloud

| credit = NASA/ESA

| epoch = J200LHA 120-N 550

| constellation = Dorado

| ra = {{RA|05|37|04.32}}{{cite simbad|title=LH 95|accessdate=15 January 2017}}

| dec = {{DEC|-66|22|00.7}}

| dist_ly = ~163000 light years

| dist_pc = ~50000 parsecs (50 kpc)

| appmag_v = 11.10

| size_v = 0.80' x 0.65'

| mass_msol =

| age =

| notes =

| names = LH 95, KMHK 1139, 2MASS J05370431-6622007

}}

LH 95 is a modestly sized stellar nursery in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is related to the HII-region LHA 120-N 55, that is, a region of hydrogen ionized by the bright stars of LH 95.

Previously only young bright stars were known in this stellar association.{{cite journal

|author1=Gouliermis, D. |author2=Keller, S.C. | display-authors=etal

| title=Three stellar associations and their field east of LMC 4 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

| journal=Astronomy and Astrophysics | volume=381 | page=862 |date=January 2002

|issue=3 | doi=10.1051/0004-6361:20011469 | bibcode=2002A&A...381..862G| doi-access=free }} Imaging using the Hubble Space Telescope, however, allowed the identification of more than 2,500 pre–main sequence stars with masses down to about 0.3 solar masses, thereby giving a detailed picture of what a typical stellar association in the LMC looks like.{{cite journal

|author1=Gouliermis, Dimitrios A. |author2=Henning, Thomas |author3=Brandner, Wolfgang |author4=Dolphin, Andrew E. |author5=Rosa, Michael |author6=Brandl, Bernhard | title=Discovery of the pre–main sequence population of the stellar association LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Hubble Space Telescope ACS Observations

| journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=665 | page=L27-L30 |date=January 2007

|issue=1 | doi=10.1086/521224 | bibcode=2007ApJ...665L..27G|arxiv = 0706.4377 |s2cid=16015208 }}

The large sample of low-mass pre–main sequence stars, stars that are currently under formation, in LH 95 allows the construction of the first most complete Initial Mass Function of an extragalactic star forming cluster.Da Rio, Nicola; Gouliermis, Dimitrios A.; Henning, Thomas, "[http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...696..528D The Complete Initial Mass Function Down to the Subsolar Regime in the Large Magellanic Cloud with Hubble Space Telescope ACS Observations]", The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 696, Issue 1, pp. 528-545 (2009) [http://www.arxiv.org/abs/0902.0758 ArXiv preprint] The Initial Mass Function of LH 95 does not seem to differ from that typical for the Milky Way.