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We present a high quality CMD for a 36'x 36' field located 8 degrees (7 kpc) from the LMC center, as well as a precise determination of the LMC surface brightness derived from the resolved stellar population out to this large galactocentric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gallart , P. B. Stetson , E. Hardy , F. Pont , R. Zinn

We analyze photometric properties of 1384 cluster galaxies as a function of the normalized distance to cluster center. These galaxies were selected in the central region ($r/r_{200} \leq$ 0.8) of 14 southern Abell clusters chosen from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. Coenda , H. Muriel , C. J. Donzelli , H. Quintana , L. Infante , D. G. Lambas

We recover the spatially resolved star formation history across the entire main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using fourteen deep tile images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), in the YJKs filters.…

Star formation is a hierarchical process, forming young stellar structures of star clusters, associations, and complexes over a wide scale range. The star-forming complex in the bar region of the Large Magellanic Cloud is investigated with…

Spectral line survey observations of 7 molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have been conducted in the 3 mm band with the Mopra 22 m telescope to reveal chemical compositions in low metallicity conditions. Spectral lines of…

We investigate the structural properties of nuclear star clusters in late-type spiral galaxies. More specifically, we fit analytical models to HST images of 39 nuclear clusters in order to determine their effective radii after correction…

Hubble Space Telescope allows us to study the central surface brightness profiles for globular clusters at unprecedented detail. We have mined the HST archives to obtain 38 WFPC2 images of galactic globular clusters with adequate exposure…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Noyola , K. Gebhardt

The properties of 939 star clusters in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds were determined from ground-based CCD images in UBVR passbands. The areal coverage was extensive, corresponding to 11.0 sq-kpc in the LMC and 8.3 sq-kpc in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. A. Hunter , B. G. Elmegreen , T. J. Dupuy , M. Mortonson

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

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 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

Detailed 4.8- and 8.6-GHz radio images of the entire Large Magellanic Cloud with half-power beamwidths of 33" at 4.8 GHz and 20" at 8.6 GHz have been obtained using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. A total of 7085 mosaic positions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. R. Dickel , V. J. McIntyre , R. A. Gruendl , D. K. Milne

We present an analysis of high-resolution FLAMES spectra of approximately 50 early B-type stars in three young clusters at different metallicities, NGC6611 in the Galaxy, N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and NGC346 in the Small…

By obtaining imaging data in two photometric bands for 60 lenticular galaxies - members of 8 southern clusters - with the Las Cumbres Observatory one-meter telescope network, we have analyzed the structure of their large-scale stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Olga K. Sil'chenko , Alexei Yu. Kniazev , Ekaterina M. Chudakova

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

The 3D structure of the inner Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is investigated using the red clump (RC) stars and the RR Lyrae stars (RRLS). The V and I pass bands photometric data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Smitha Subramanian , Annapurni Subramaniam

We studied star formation activities in the molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We have utilized the second catalog of 272 molecular clouds obtained by NANTEN to compare the cloud distribution with signatures of massive star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Kawamura , Y. Mizuno , T. Minamidani , M. D. Fillipovic , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim , N. Mizuno , T. Onishi , A. Mizuno , Y. Fukui

The proximity & low dust extinction of the Magellanic Clouds provides an ideal environment for metal-poor massive stars to be studied in detail. The HST ULLYSES initiative has provided exquisite ultraviolet spectroscopy of a large sample of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-26 J. M. Bestenlehner , P. A. Crowther , C. Hawcroft , H. Sana , F. Tramper , J. S. Vink , S. A. Brands , A. A. C. Sander

We present ESO/VLT spectra in the 2.9--4.1 micron range for a large sample of infrared stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), selected on the basis of MSX and 2MASS colours to be extremely dust-enshrouded AGB star candidates. Out of 30…

We present high-quality J, H and K photometry of four Small Magellanic Cloud stellar clusters with intermediate ages in the 1-7 Gyr range (namely NGC 339, 361, 416 and 419) . We obtained deep Color-Magnitude Diagrams to study the evolved…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Alessio Mucciarelli , Livia Origlia , Claudia Maraston , Francesco R. Ferraro