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The age distribution function of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is known to present a feature called the cluster age gap, a period of time from ~ 4 to 11 Gyr ago with a remarkable small number of clusters identified. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrés E. Piatti

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

We started a photometric survey using the WFC3/UVIS instrument onboard the Hubble Space Telescope to search for multiple populations within Magellanic Cloud star clusters at various ages. In this paper, we introduce this survey. As first…

We present a method to determine the star formation history of a mixed stellar population from its photometry. We perform a chi-squared minimization between the observed photometric distribution and a model photometric distribution, based…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky

The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young star clusters show that, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths, their upper main sequences (MSs) bifurcate into a sequence comprising the bulk population and a blue periphery. The spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yujiao Yang , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

We present a new method for the evaluation of the age and age-spread among pre-main-sequence (PMS) stars in star-forming regions in the Magellanic Clouds, accounting simultaneously for photometric errors, unresolved binarity, differential…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-19 Nicola Da Rio , Dimitrios A. Gouliermis , Mario Gennaro

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 a study of the hierarchical clustering of the young stellar clusters in six local (3--15 Mpc) star-forming galaxies using Hubble Space Telescope broad band WFC3/UVIS UV and optical images from the Treasury Program LEGUS (Legacy…

A meta-analysis of seismic ages determined for individual stars in the well-studied open and globular clusters NGC 6819, NGC 6791, M67, M4, M19, M80, and M9 reveals both high variance across measurements and significant discrepancy with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-14 Jamie Tayar , Meridith Joyce

Using high-resolution, multiple-passband Hubble Space Telescope images spanning the entire optical/near-infrared wavelength range, we obtained a statistically complete sample, $U$-band selected sample of 846 extended star clusters across…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Shuo Li , Richard de Grijs , Peter Anders , Chengyuan Li

Context. We aim to determine the capabilities of the MEGARA@GTC instrument integral-field unit to study stellar populations and exploit its combination of high spectral (R \sim 6,000, 12,000 and 20,000) and spatial (0.62") resolutions…

In this work we analyse Colour-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) of catalogued star clusters located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from a YJKs photometric data set obtained by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)…

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

The YMCA (Yes, Magellanic Clouds Again) and STEP ({The SMC in Time: Evolution of a Prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy) projects are deep g,i photometric surveys carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and devoted to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 M. Gatto , V. Ripepi , M. Bellazzini , M. Cignoni , M. -R. L. Cioni , M. Dall'Ora , G. Longo , M. Marconi , P. Schipani , M. Tosi

In this paper we study the Cepheids distribution in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) as a function of their ages using data from the OGLE III photometric catalogue. To determine age of the Pop I Cepheids, we derived a period-age (PA)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Yogesh C. Joshi , Santosh Joshi

In order to understand the Galactic structure, we perform a statistical analysis of the distribution of various cluster parameters based on an almost complete sample of Galactic open clusters yet available. The geometrical and physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Y. C. Joshi

New star cluster candidates projected toward the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (L/SMC) have been recently discovered from relatively deep imaging surveys. We here conduct a sound analysis of 24 star cluster candidates located in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-10 Andrés E. Piatti

The Magellanic Clouds host a large population of massive (> 10^4 Msun) star clusters with ages ranging from a few Myr to 12 Gyr. In nearly all cases, close inspection of their CMDs reveals features that deviate from expectations of a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-06 I. Cabrera-Ziri , S. Martocchia , K. Hollyhead , N. Bastian

Despite their close proximity, the complex interplay between the two Magellanic Clouds, the Milky Way, and the resulting tidal features, is still poorly understood. Recent studies have shown that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has a very…

We present an investigation of the relationship between giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties and the associated stellar clusters in the nearby flocculent galaxy NGC 7793. We combine the star cluster catalog from the HST LEGUS (Legacy…