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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

We present in this study flux-calibrated integrated spectra in the range 3600-6800A for 18 concentrated SMC clusters. Cluster reddening values were estimated by interpolation between the extinction maps of Burstein & Heiles (1982, AJ, 87,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. E. Piatti , J. F. C. Santos , J. J. Claria , E. Bica , A. V. Ahumada , M. C. Parisi

We report on the astrophysical properties of a sample of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). They have been selected with the aim of looking for the connection between their ages, heliocentric distances and metallicities with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Denis M. F. Illesca , Andrés E. Piatti , Matías Chiarpotti , Roberto Butrón

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

The stellar population and star clusters around six regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are studied to understand the correlation between star formation and cluster formation rates. We used the stellar database of the OGLE II LMC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Annapurni Subramaniam

We present deep Washington photometry of 45 poorly populated star cluster candidates in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have performed a systematic study to estimate the parameters of the cluster candidates by matching theoretical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Samyaday Choudhury , Annapurni Subramaniam , Andrés E. Piatti

We present an analysis of age, metal abundance, and positional data on populous clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with the ultimate aim of determining the line-of-sight (LOS) depth of the SMC using these clusters as proxies. Our…

In this paper, we present the properties of 10 halo globular clusters with luminosities $L\simeq 5-7\times 10^5{L_\odot}$ in the Local Group galaxy M33 using the images of {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-24 Jun Ma

The structural parameters of the disk of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are estimated.We used the red clump stars from the VI photometric data of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment survey and from the Magellanic Cloud…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Smitha Subramanian , Annapurni Subramaniam

We present a morphological analysis of the feature-rich 2MASS LMC color-magnitude diagram, identifying Galactic and LMC populations and estimating the density of LMC populations alone. We also present the projected spatial distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Nikolaev , Martin D. Weinberg

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

We use Hubble Space Telescope archival images to measure central surface brightness profiles of globular clusters around satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. We report results for 21 clusters around the LMC, 5 around the SMC, and 4 around…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Eva Noyola , Karl Gebhardt

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 the detection of very extended stellar populations around the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) out to R~21 degrees, or ~18.5 kpc at the LMC distance of 50 kpc, as detected in the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH)…

This study presents a comprehensive analysis of the youngest stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), utilising a multi-wavelength approach. We analyse data spanning from infrared to ultraviolet wavelengths, with the goal of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-13 Ricardo Chávez , Rosa Amelia González-Lópezlira , Gustavo Bruzual

The Magellanic Mopra Assessment (MAGMA) is a high angular resolution CO mapping survey of giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds using the Mopra Telescope. Here we report on the basic physical properties of…

We analyzed HST/WFPC2 colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of 15 populous Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) stellar clusters with ages between ~ 0.3 Gyr and ~ 3 Gyr. These (V, B-V) CMDs are photometrically homogeneous and typically reach V \~ 22.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. O. Kerber , B. X. Santiago , E. Brocato

The main goal of this study is to compile a catalogue including the fundamental parameters of a complete sample of 277 star clusters (SCs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the Washington photometric system, including 82…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tali Palma , Luciana V. Gramajo , Juan J. Clariá , Marcelo Lares , Doug Geisler , Andrea V. Ahumada

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 present a study of the internal structure of 82 star clusters located at the outer regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud using data of the VISCACHA Survey. Through the construction of the minimum spanning…