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We develop an automatic bubble-recognition routine based on Minkowski functionals (MF) and tensors (MT) to detect bubble-like interstellar structures in optical emission line images. Minkowski functionals and MT are powerful mathematical…

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We present a Parkes multibeam \HI survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This survey, which is sensitive to spatial structure in the range 200 pc to 10 kpc, complements the Australia Telescope Compact survey, which is sensitive to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-01 L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim , M. R. Calabretta , R. F. Haynes , M. J. Kesteven

In the past years, we have undertaken an extensive investigation of LMC and SMC star clusters based on HST data. We present photometry and astrometry of stars in 101 fields observed with the WFC/ACS, UVIS/WFC3 and NIR/WFC3 cameras. These…

We present a three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic System using over 9 000 Classical Cepheids and almost 23 000 RR Lyrae stars from the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Given the vast coverage of the OGLE-IV data and very high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-11-06 Anna M. Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka , the OGLE Team

Due to their close proximity, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (SMC/LMC) provide natural laboratories for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. With the goal of determining the structure and dynamical state of the SMC, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Michele De Leo , Ricardo Carrera , Noelia E. D. Noel , Justin I. Read , Denis Erkal , Carme Gallart

We derive structural parameters and evidence for extended tidal debris from star count and preliminary standard candle analyses of the Large Magellanic Cloud based on Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) data. The full-sky coverage and low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-07 Martin D. Weinberg , Sergei Nikolaev

We present the catalog of star clusters found in the area of about 5.8 square degree in the central regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It contains data for 745 clusters. 126 of them are new objects. For each cluster equatorial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski , M. Kubiak , M. Szymanski , P. Wozniak , K. Zebrun

The rotation curve of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which we have derived from high-resolution HI position-velocity diagrams observed by Kim et al (1998), shows a steep central rise and flat rotation with a gradual rise toward the edge. Using…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yoshiaki Sofue

We present identifications and kinematic analysis of 7,426 massive ($\mathrm{\geq}8M_{\odot}$) stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using Gaia DR3 data. We used Gaia ($G_\mathrm{BP}-G_\mathrm{RP}$, $G$) color-magnitude diagram to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-02-19 Satoya Nakano , Kengo Tachihara , Mao Tamashiro

Abridged: Four new nuclear star cluster masses, M_nc, plus seven upper limits, are provided for galaxies with previously determined black hole masses, M_bh. Together with a sample of 64 galaxies with direct M_bh measurements, 13 of which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Alister W. Graham

The list of 127 eclipsing stars in optical coincidence with star clusters from the SMC is presented. It was prepared using the catalogs of eclipsing systems and star clusters from the SMC based on observations collected during the OGLE-II…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Pietrzynski , A. Udalski

It has been recently shown from observational data sets the variation of structural parameters and internal dynamical evolution of star clusters in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), caused by the different gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Andrés E. Piatti

We present deep optical images of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) using a low cost telephoto lens with a wide field of view to explore stellar substructure in the outskirts of the stellar disk of the LMC (r < 10 degrees…

We use a new panoramic imaging survey, conducted with the Dark Energy Camera, to map the stellar fringes of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds to extremely low surface brightness V $\gtrsim$ 32 mag arcsec$^{-2}$. Our results starkly…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 Dougal Mackey , Sergey E. Koposov , Gary Da Costa , Vasily Belokurov , Denis Erkal , Pete Kuzma

We present a detailed analysis of Magellanic Bridge Cepheid sample constructed using the OGLE Collection of Variable Stars. Our updated Bridge sample contains 10 classical and 13 anomalous Cepheids. We calculate their individual distances…

Nine supergiant shells (SGSs) have been identified in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on H-alpha images, and twenty-three SGSs have been reported based on HI 21-cm line observations, but these sets do not always identify the same…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Laura G. Book , You-Hua Chu , Robert A. Gruendl

[abridged] We explore the diversity of internal galaxy structures in the Coma cluster across a wide range of luminosities ($-17$\,$>$\,$M_g$\,$>$\,$-22$) and cluster-centric radii ($0$\,$<$\,$r_{\rm{cluster}}$\,$<$\,1.3 $r_{200}$) through…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-09-23 Jacob T. C. G. Head , John R. Lucey , Michael J. Hudson

Context. The interactions between the SMC and LMC created the Magellanic Bridge, a stream of gas and stars pulled out of the SMC towards the LMC about 150 Myr ago. The tidal counterpart of this structure, which should include a trailing…

We investigate the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) interacting with the Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical simulations. Our numerical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bekki , M. Chiba

The recent publications of the DENIS Catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) with more than 1.3 million sources identified in at least two of the three DENIS filters (I J K_s) and of the incremental releases of the 2MASS point source…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. Delmotte , D. Egret , C. Loup , M. -R. Cioni