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Using infrared, radio, and gamma-ray data,we investigate the propagation characteristics of cosmic-ray (CR) electrons and nuclei in the 30 Doradus (30\,Dor) star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using a phenomenological…

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Scenarios that invoke multiple episodes of star formation within young globular clusters (GCs) to explain the observed chemical and photometric anomalies in GCs, require that clusters can retain the stellar ejecta of the stars within them…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-22 Nate Bastian , Jay Strader

We investigate the present distributions of gas and young stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) based on fully self-consistent numerical simulations of the Clouds for the last ~ 0.8 Gyr. Our principal results, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We have recently shown that the $\sim2$ Gyr old Large Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 1978 hosts multiple populations in terms of star-to-star abundance variations in [N/Fe]. These can be seen as a splitting or spread in the sub-giant and…

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 show the results of deep V and I HST photometry of 6 rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud with different ages and metallicities. The number of stars with measured magnitudes in each cluster varies from about 3000 to 10000. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Santiago , S. Beaulieu , R. Johnson , G. Gilmore

We present our analysis of Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 observations in F555W (broadband V) and F450W (broadband B) of the globular cluster Hodge 11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The resulting V vs. (B-V)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 K. J. Mighell , R. M. Rich , M. Shara , S. M. Fall

We traced the age of the last star formation event (LSFE) in the inner Large & Small Magellanic Cloud (L&SMC) using the photometric data from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) and the Magellanic Cloud Photometric…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G Indu , Annapurni Subramaniam

We trace the star formation regions in the SMC and study their properties. The size and spatial distribution of these regions is found to support the hierarchical scenario of star formation, whereas, the evaluation of their intensity,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Livanou , I. Gonidakis , E. Kontizas , U. Klein , M. Kontizas , D. Kester , Y. Fukui , N. Mizuno , P. Tsalmantza

The all-sky Milky Way Star Clusters (MWSC) survey provides uniform and precise ages and other parameters for a variety of clusters in the Solar Neighbourhood. We construct the cluster age distribution, investigate its spatial variations,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 A. E. Piskunov , A. Just , N. V. Kharchenko , P. Berczik , R. -D. Scholz , S. Reffert , S. X. Yen

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 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

There has been growing evidence that the rich star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds contain significant fractions of rapidly rotating stars. In this work, we aim to constrain these fractions by studying the colour-magnitude diagrams of…

In this work we estimate, for the first time, the total masses and mass function slopes of a sample of 29 young and intermediate-age SMC clusters from CCD Washington photometry. We also derive age, interstellar reddening and structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 F. F. S. Maia , A. E. Piatti , J. F. C. Santos

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

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

Based on the Bica et al. (1999) catalogue we studied the star cluster system of the LMC and provide a new catalogue of all binary and multiple cluster candidates found. We performed Monte Carlo simulations and produced artificial cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrea Dieball , Hardo Mueller , Eva K. Grebel

We present the results of our investigation on the phenomenon of mass segregation in young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. HST/WFPC2 observations on NGC 1818, NGC 2004 & NGC 2100 in the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 330 in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Gouliermis , S. C. Keller , M. Kontizas , E. Kontizas , I. Bellas-Velidis

We re-analyze the age distribution (dN/dt) of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using age determinations based on the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey. For ages younger than 3x10^9 yr the dN/dt distribution can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gieles , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , S. F. Portegies Zwart