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Recent studies have shown that the observed main-sequence turn-off (MSTO) in colour-magnitude diagrams of intermediate age (1-2 Gyr) clusters in the LMC are broader than would be nominally expected for a simple stellar population. This has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nate Bastian , Esteban Silva-Villa

[ABRIDGED] The LMC star cluster system offers the unique opportunity to independently check the accuracy of age and mass determinations based on a number of complementary techniques, including isochrone analysis. Using our sophisticated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard de Grijs , Peter Anders

The color-magnitude diagram (CMD) of the intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) star cluster NGC 2154 and its adjacent field, has been analyzed using Padova stellar models to determine the cluster's fundamental parameters and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Gustavo Baume , Giovanni Carraro , Edgardo Costa , Rene' A. Mendez B. , Leo Girardi

We use deep images acquired with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) on board of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the filters F555W and F814W to characterize the properties of NGC 376, a young star cluster located in the wing of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 E. Sabbi , A. Nota , M. Tosi , L. J. Smith , J. Gallagher , M. Cignoni

We present the result of a detailed analysis of HST UV and optical deep images of the massive and young (~1.5 Gyr) stellar cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This system does not show evidences of multiple populations (MPs)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-12 M. Cadelano , E. Dalessandro , M. Salaris , N. Bastian , A. Mucciarelli , S. Saracino , S. Martocchia , I. Cabrera-Ziri

We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to obtain deep, high resolution images of two intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud of relatively low mass ($\approx$ $10^4$ $M_{\odot}$)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Matteo Correnti , Paul Goudfrooij , Jason S. Kalirai , Leo Girardi , Thomas H. Puzia , Leandro Kerber

The Advanced Camera for Surveys on board the Hubble Space Telescope has been used to obtain deep, high-resolution images of the intermediate-age star cluster NGC 1846 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We present new color-magnitude diagrams…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Paul Goudfrooij , Thomas H. Puzia , Vera Kozhurina-Platais , Rupali Chandar

We derive the spatially-resolved star formation history (SFH) for a $96$ deg$^2$ area across the main body of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the near-infrared photometry from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC). The…

We present the results of a spectroscopic investigation of two Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters, NGC 1953 and NGC 1856. Both clusters have similar ages (250 and 300 Myr, respectively). Spectra were recorded with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-05 Paul I. Cristofari , Andrea K. Dupree , Antonino P. Milone , Mario Mateo , Matias Chiarpotti

Using homogeneous CCD photometric data from the 105-cm Kiso Schmidt telescope covering a 50' x 50' field, we study the mass functions (MFs) of nine open clusters. The ages and Galactocentric distances of the target clusters vary from 16 -…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Saurabh Sharma , A. K. Pandey , K. Ogura , T. Aoki , Kavita Pandey , T. S. Sandhu , R. Sagar

We present WFPC2 and ground-based VI photometry of NGC 121 and a nearby field in the outer SMC. For NGC 121, we measure a true distance modulus of (m-M)0 = 18.96 +/- 0.04 (distance of 61.9 +/- 1.1 kpc), age of 10.6 +/- 0.5 Gyr, metallicity…

We report results on star clusters located in the South-Eastern half of the Large Magellanic (LMC) bar from Washington $CT_1$ photometry. Using appropriate kernel density estimators we detected 73 star cluster candidates, three of which do…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-04 Andrés E. Piatti

In our HST photometric survey, we have been searching for multiple stellar populations (MPs) in Magellanic Clouds (MCs) massive star clusters which span a significant range of ages ($\sim 1.5-11$ Gyr). In the previous papers of the series,…

We present CMDs in the V and I bands for fifteen star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on data taken with the Very Large Telescope (VLT, Chile). We selected these clusters from our previous work, wherein we derived cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 M. C. Parisi , D. Geisler , G. Carraro , J. J. Clariá , E. Costa , A. J. Grocholski , A. Sarajedini , R. Leiton , A. E. Piatti

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 present new age and mass estimates for 920 stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on previously published broad-band photometry and the stellar cluster analysis package, MASSCLEANage. Expressed in the generic fitting…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 Bogdan Popescu , M. M. Hanson , Bruce G. Elmegreen

We present a detailed view of cluster formation (CF) to trace the evolution and interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) in the last 3.5 Gyr. Using the \textit{Gaia} DR3 data, we parameterized 1710 and 280 star clusters in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-11 S. R. Dhanush , A. Subramaniam , Prasanta K. Nayak , S. Subramanian

We have studied the optical spectra of a sample of 31 O- and early B-type stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud, 21 of which are associated with the young massive cluster NGC 346. Stellar parameters are determined using an automated fitting…

In this study, we report conclusive evidence for an ancient star cluster that has been accreted by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). By leveraging observations from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), we investigate the chrono-dynamical…

We have recently shown that the $\sim2$ Gyr old Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1978 hosts multiple populations in terms of star-to-star abundance variations in [N/Fe]. These can be seen as a splitting or spread in the sub-giant and…