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We calculated a grid of evolutionary tracks of rotating models with masses between 1.0 and 3.0 $M_{\odot}$ and a resolution $\delta M \leq 0.02$ $M_{\odot}$, which can be used to study the effects of rotation on stellar evolutions and on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Wuming Yang , Shaolan Bi , Xiangcun Meng

Rotation has become an important element in evolutionary models of massive stars, specifically via the prediction of rotational mixing. Here, we study a sample of stars, including rapid rotators, to constrain such models and use nitrogen…

We report the first results of a color-magnitude diagram survey of 25 candidate old LMC clusters. For almost all of the sample, it was possible to reach the turnoff region, and in many clusters we have several magnitudes of the main…

Differences between the inferred star formation histories (SFHs) of star clusters and field stars seem to suggest distinct star formation processes for the two. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an example of a galaxy where such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-27 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers

In this contribution I will present the current status of our project of stellar population analyses and spatial information of both Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The Magellanic Clouds - especially the LMC with its large size and small depth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen M. Braun

A few star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds exhibit composite structures in the red-clump region of their colour-magnitude diagrams. The most striking case is NGC419 in the SMC, where the red clump is composed of a main blob as well as a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-14 Leo Girardi , Stefano Rubele , Leandro Kerber

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

We present an analysis of the relatively low mass ($\sim2400$~M$_{\odot}$), $\sim800$~Myr, Galactic open cluster, NGC~2818, using Gaia DR2 results combined with VLT/FLAMES spectroscopy. Using Gaia DR2 proper motions and parallax…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 N. Bastian , S. Kamann , I. Cabrera-Ziri , C. Georgy , S. Ekström , C. Charbonnel , M. de Juan Ovelar , C. Usher

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of various stellar populations within the Large Magellanic Cloud. We combine mid-infrared selected young stellar objects, optically selected samples with mean ages between ~9 and ~1000 Myr,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Nate Bastian , Mark Gieles , Barbara Ercolano , Rob Gutermuth

Extended main-sequence turnoffs are observed in the color-magnitude diagrams of some young and intermediate-age star clusters. Here we report the case study of NGC 3532. Among the cluster member candidates identified using the ML-MOC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-08 Khushboo K Rao , Wen-Ping Chen

We model the dynamical interaction between the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds and their corresponding stellar cluster populations. Our goal is to explore whether the lack of old clusters ($\gtrsim 7$ Gyr) in the Small Magellanic Cloud…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Daniel D. Carpintero , Facundo A. Gómez , Andrés E. Piatti

To study the evolution of binary star clusters we have imaged 7 systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud with SOAR 4-m telescope using B and V filters. The sample contains pairs with well-separated components (d < 30 pc) as well as systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. F. C. Santos , A. A. Schmidt , E. Bica

We present the analysis of the extended Main Sequence Turn-Off (eMSTO) in the open cluster NGC\,6067. We derive the projected rotational velocity, \textit{v}sin\textit{i}, of the stars belonging to the eMSTO region of the main sequence (MS)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jayanand Maurya , Yu Zhang , Sebastian Kamann , Hubiao Niu , Yves Frémat , Kaixiang Lang , Y. C. Joshi , M. R. Samal , Peter De Cat , Ali Esamdin

Be stars are rapidly rotating B main sequence stars, which show line emission due to an outflowing disc. By studying the evolution of rotating single star models, we can assess their contribution to the observed Be star populations. We…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-29 Ben Hastings , Chen Wang , Norbert Langer

Stellar rotation significantly shapes the evolution of massive stars, yet the interplay of mass and metallicity remains elusive, limiting our capacity to construct accurate stellar evolution models and to better estimate the impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-11 Weijia Sun , Cristina Chiappini

It has been suggested since recent time that the magnitude of the interaction between galaxies could be measured from the level of kinematic disturbance of their outer regions with respect to the innermost ones. Here, I proved that the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-26 Andrés E. Piatti

The rotational evolution of a young stellar population can give informations about the rotation pattern of more evolved clusters. Combined with rotational period values of thousands of young stars and theoretical propositions about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-18 Maria Jaqueline Vasconcelos , Jérôme Bouvier , Florian Gallet , Edson A. Luz Filho

We revisited the young Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC1971 with the aim of providing additional clues to our understanding of its observed extended Main Sequence turnoff (eMSTO), a feature common seen in young stars clusters, which…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-01-04 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,…

Large-scale star formation in disk galaxies is hypothesized to be driven by global gravitational instability. The observed gas surface density is commonly used to compute the strength of gravitational instability, but according to this…