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Recent studies have shown that the extended main-sequence turn off (eMSTO) is a common feature of intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The most simple explanation is that these stellar systems harbor multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 A. P. Milone , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , A. F. Marino , S. Cassisi , A. Bellini , H. Jerjen , A. Pietrinferni , A. Aparicio , R. M. Rich

Extended main sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) are a common feature in color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The nature of eMSTOs is still debated. The most popular scenarios are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-27 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Andrea Bellini , Alessandro Bressan , Matteo Correnti , Guglielmo Costa

With the goal of untangling the origin of extended main-sequence turnoffs (eMSTOs) and extended red clumps (eRCs) in star clusters, in this work we present the study of the intermediate-age cluster NGC 419, situated along the Bridge of the…

We present color-magnitude diagram analysis of deep Hubble Space Telescope imaging of a mass-limited sample of 18 intermediate-age (1 - 2 Gyr old) star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds, including 8 clusters for which new data was obtained.…

We combine a number of recent studies of the extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) phenomenon in intermediate age stellar ($1-2$ Gyr) clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in order to investigate its origin. By employing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-31 Andrés E. Piatti , Nate Bastian

Recent observations of intermediate age (1 - 3 Gyr) massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have revealed that the majority possess bifurcated or extended main-sequence turn-off (EMSTO) morphologies. This effect can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Stefan C. Keller , A. Dougal Mackey , Gary S. Da Costa

While the extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs) found in almost all 1--2 Gyr-old star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds are often explained by postulating extended star-formation histories, the tight subgiant branches (SGBs) seen in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-27 Xiaohan Wu , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

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…

Nearly all the star clusters with ages of ~1-2 Gyr in both Magellanic Clouds exhibit an extended main-sequence turn off (eMSTO) whose origin is under debate. The main scenarios suggest that the eMSTO could be either due to multiple…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , F. D'Antona , L. R. Bedin , G. S. Da Costa , H. Jerjen , A. D. Mackey

By far, the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of Galactic open clusters have been considered proto-types of single stellar populations. By using photometry in ultraviolet and optical bands we discovered that the nearby young cluster NGC6705…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 A. F. Marino , A. P. Milone , L. Casagrande , N. Przybilla , L. Balaguer-Nunez , M. Di Criscienzo , A. Serenelli , F. Vilardell

The extended main-sequence turn-off (eMSTO) is a well-known feature observed in young and intermediate-age star clusters, characterized by a significant broadening of the main-sequence turn-off region. Although prolonged star formation and…

An increasing number of young massive clusters (YMCs) in the Magellanic Clouds have been found to exhibit bimodal or extended main sequences (MSs) in their color--magnitude diagrams (CMDs). These features are usually interpreted in terms of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-09 Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng , Antonino P. Milone

We use the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to obtain deep, high resolution images of two intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud of relatively low mass ($\approx$ $10^4$ $M_{\odot}$)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Matteo Correnti , Paul Goudfrooij , Jason S. Kalirai , Leo Girardi , Thomas H. Puzia , Leandro Kerber

We present Hubble Space Telescope photometry of NGC1850, a ~100 Myr, ~10^5 Msun cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The colour magnitude diagram clearly shows the presence of an extended main sequence turnoff (eMSTO). The use of…

Extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions are a common feature in color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The nature of eMSTOs remains debated in the literature. The currently…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-28 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Matteo Correnti

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

Recent high-quality photometry of many star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds with ages of 1$\,-\,$2 Gyr revealed main sequence turnoffs (MSTOs) that are significantly wider than can be accounted for by a simple stellar population (SSP).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Philip Rosenfield , Alessandro Bressan , Paola Marigo , Matteo Correnti , Thomas H. Puzia

We report the serendipitous young Large Magellanic Cloud cluster, NGC 1971, exhibits an extended main-sequence turnoff (eMSTO) possibly originated by mostly a real age spread. We used CT1 Washington photometry to produce a colour-magnitude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 Andrés E. Piatti , Andrew Cole

The presence of extended main-sequence turn-off (eMSTO) regions in intermediate-age star clusters in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds is often interpreted as resulting from extended star-formation histories (SFHs), lasting $\geq$ 300…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-07-27 Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Nathan Bastian , Licai Deng , Florian Niederhofer , Chaoli Zhang

We present an imaging analysis of four low mass stellar clusters (< 5000 Mo) in the outer regions of the LMC in order to shed light on the extended main sequence turn-off (eMSTO) phenomenon observed in high mass clusters. The four clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-05-11 Andrés E. Piatti , Nate Bastian
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