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We present a multiple population search in two old Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Globular Clusters, Hodge 11 and NGC 2210. This work uses data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope from…

We present a multi-wavelength study of the young stellar population in the Cygnus-X DR15 region. We studied young stars forming or recently formed at and around the tip of a prominent molecular pillar and an infrared dark cloud. Using a…

We present our analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) observations in F450W (~B) and F555W (~V) of the intermediate- age populous star clusters NGC 121, NGC 339, NGC 361, NGC 416, and Kron 3 in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kenneth J. Mighell , Ata Sarajedini , Rica S. French

Around the turn of the last century, star clusters of all kinds were considered "simple" stellar populations. Over the past decade, this situation has changed dramatically. At the same time, star clusters are among the brightest stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-17 Richard de Grijs , Chengyuan Li

The Bar is the most productive region of the Small Magellanic Cloud in terms of star formation but also the least studied one. In this paper we investigate the star formation history of two fields located in the SW and in the NE portion of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 M. Cignoni , A. A. Cole , M. Tosi , J. S. Gallagher , E. Sabbi , J. Anderson , E. K. Grebel , A. Nota

We present integrated JHK_s 2MASS photometry and a compilation of integrated-light optical photoelectric measurements for 84 star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. These clusters range in age from ~200 Myr to >10 Gyr, and have [Fe/H]…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. M. Pessev , P. Goudfrooij , T. H. Puzia , R. Chandar

Star-to-star light-element abundance variations, know as multiple stellar populations (MPs), are common in almost all Galactic globular clusters. Recently, MPs have also been detected in a number of massive clusters with ages in excess of 2…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs

We present a spectroscopic study of the most massive stars in the young (4 Myr old) stellar cluster LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This analysis allows us to complete the census of the stellar population of the system, previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Da Rio , D. Gouliermis , B. Rochau , A. Pasquali , J. Setiawan , G. De Marchi

[Abridged] The stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) suggests that sub-solar stars form in very large numbers. Most attractive places for catching low-mass star formation in the act are young stellar clusters and associations, still…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-10 Dimitrios Gouliermis

Aim: We aim to estimate the age and reddening parameters of already identified star clusters within the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in a consistent way using available photometric data, classify them based on their mass and strength, and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-12 P. K. Nayak , A. Subramaniam , S. Choudhury , Ram Sagar

Whether or not the rich star cluster population in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is affected by significant disruption during the first few x 10^8 yr of its evolution is an open question and the subject of significant current debate.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Richard de Grijs , Simon P. Goodwin , Peter Anders

We have identified a candidate 1-2 x 10^5 year old luminous white dwarf in NGC 1818, a young star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This discovery strongly constrains the boundary mass M_c at which stars stop forming neutron stars and…

We discuss new photometry from high-resolution images of 7 intermediate-age (1-2 Gyr) star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud taken with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope. We fit color-magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Paul Goudfrooij , Thomas H. Puzia , Vera Kozhurina-Platais , Rupali Chandar

Recent studies have shown that the extended main-sequence turn off (eMSTO) is a common feature of intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The most simple explanation is that these stellar systems harbor multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. P. Milone , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , A. F. Marino , S. Cassisi , A. Bellini , H. Jerjen , A. Pietrinferni , A. Aparicio , R. M. Rich

The ability of HST to resolve objects ten times smaller than possible from the ground has rejuvenated the study of young star clusters. A recurrent morphological theme found in nearby resolved sytems is the observation of young (typically 1…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Bradley C. Whitmore

The stellar population and star clusters around six regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are studied to understand the correlation between star formation and cluster formation rates. We used the stellar database of the OGLE II LMC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Annapurni Subramaniam

Fourteen stars from a sample of Magellanic Cloud objects selected to have a mid-infrared flux excess have been found to also show TiO bands in emission. The mid-infrared dust emission and the TiO band emission indicate that these stars have…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 P. R. Wood , D. Kamath , H. Van Winckel

We used a combination of optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope photometry and FLAMES/ESO-VLT high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize the stellar content of the old and massive globular cluster (GC) NGC121 in the Small Magellanic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 E. Dalessandro , E. Lapenna , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni

We perform a comprehensive study of the stellar populations in the young Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC 1866, combining the analysis of its best-studied Cepheids with that of a very accurate colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) obtained from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-06 Guglielmo Costa , Léo Girardi , Alessandro Bressan , Yang Chen , Paul Goudfrooij , Paola Marigo , Thaíse S. Rodrigues , Antonio Lanza

This is the second paper in our series about the search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud star clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report the detection of multiple stellar populations in the colour-magnitude…