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We have introduced a semi-automated quantitative method to estimate the age and reddening of 1072 star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) III survey data. This study brings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 P. K. Nayak , A. Subramaniam , S. Choudhury , G. Indu , Ram Sagar

About seventy percent of intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Clouds have been confirmed to have broad main sequence, multiple or extended turn-offs and dual red giant clumps. The observed result seems against the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Zhongmu Li , Caiyan Mao , Li Chen , Qian Zhang

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,…

NGC1846 and NGC1783 are two massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hosting both an extended main sequence turn-off and a dual clump of red giants. They present similar masses but differ mainly in angular size. Starting from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefano Rubele , Leo Girardi , Vera Kozhurina-Platais , Leandro Kerber , Paul Goudfrooij , Alessandro Bressan , Paola Marigo

The Magellanic Clouds are nearby dwarf irregular galaxies whose morphologies show different properties when traced by different stellar populations, making them an important laboratory for studying galaxy morphologies. We study the…

Recent observational studies of intermediate-age star clusters (SCs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have reported that a significant number of these objects show double main-sequence turn-offs (DMSTOs) in their color-magnitude diagrams…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Bekki , A. D. Mackey

NGC 6441 is one of the most massive and most metal-rich globular clusters in the galaxy, and is noted for an unusual extended horizontal branch which reaches past the instability strip. We find evidence that there are two different…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-04-05 David A. Krogsrud , Eric L. Sandquist , Tadafumi Kato

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…

Recently, a noticeable number of new star clusters was identified in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) populating the so-called star cluster age gap, a space of time (~ 4-12 Gyr) where the only known star cluster is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Andrés E. Piatti

Colour-magnitude diagrams are presented for the first time for L32, L38, K28 (L43), K44 (L68) and L116, which are clusters projected onto the outer parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The photometry was carried out in the Washington…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 A. E. Piatti , J. F. C. Santos , J. J. Claria , E. Bica , A. Sarajedini , D. Geisler

We have observed ten red giant stars in four old Large Magellanic Cloud globular clusters with the high-resolution spectrograph MIKE on the Magellan Landon Clay 6.5-m telescope. The stars in our sample have up to 20 elemental abundance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jennifer A. Johnson , Inese I. Ivans , Peter B. Stetson

Bifurcated patterns of blue straggler stars in their color--magnitude diagrams have atracted significant attention. This type of special (but rare) pattern of two distinct blue straggler sequences is commonly interpreted as evidence of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-04 Chengyuan Li , Licai Deng , Richard de Grijs , Dengkai Jiang , Yu Xin

Detailed chemical abundances of two stars in the intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular cluster NGC~1718 are presented, based on high resolution spectroscopic observations with the MIKE spectrograph. The detailed abundances…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-12 Charli Sakari , Andrew McWilliam , George Wallerstein

The spatial distribution of sources populating different regions of the colour-magnitude diagram (I-J, I) extracted from the DENIS catalogue towards the Magellanic Clouds (DCMC -- Cioni et al. 2000) reveal significantly different…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Harm J. Habing , Frank P. Israel

We present the first evidence of multiple populations in the Galactic globular cluster NGC 6362. We used optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope and ground based photometry, finding that both the sub giant and red giant branches are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 E. Dalessandro , D. Massari , M. Bellazzini , P. Miocchi , A. Mucciarelli , M. Salaris , S. Cassisi , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni

Globular cluster systems (GCS) frequently show a bi-modal distribution of the cluster integrated colours. This work explores the arguments to support the idea that the same feature is shared by the diffuse stellar population of the galaxy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Juan C. Forte , Favio Faifer , Doug Geisler

In this paper we present high resolution VLT/FLAMES observations of red giant stars in the massive intermediate-age Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1846, which, on the basis of its extended main-sequence turn-off (EMSTO), possesses…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 A. D. Mackey , G. S. Da Costa , A. M. N. Ferguson , D. Yong

Recently, Li et al. (2016) claimed to have found evidence for multiple generations of stars in the intermediate age clusters NGC 1783, NGC 1696 and NGC 411 in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC/SMC). Here we show that these young…

We present the list of potential multiple star clusters from the central part of the SMC. Presented systems were selected from the catalog of star clusters from the SMC. We find 23 suspected cluster pairs and 4 triple systems. The…

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

Studies during the last decade have revealed that nearly all Globular Clusters (GCs) host multiple populations (MPs) of stars with a distinctive chemical patterns in light elements. No evidence of such MPs has been found so far in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-25 I. Cabrera-Ziri , C. Lardo , B. Davies , N. Bastian , G. Beccari , S. S. Larsen , S. Hernandez