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We present the analysis of multiband time-series data for a sample of 24 Cepheids in the field of the Large Magellanic Cloud cluster NGC1866. Very accurate BVI VLT photometry is combined with archival UBVI data, covering a large temporal…

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The structural parameters, like the inclination, i and the position angle of the line of nodes (PA_lon) of the disk of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are estimated using the JH photometric data of red clump stars from the Infrared Survey…

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We present a new optical polarimetric catalog for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). It contains a total of 7207 stars, located in the Northeast (NE) and Wing sections of the SMC and part of the Magellanic Bridge. This new catalog is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-16 A. Lobo Gomes , A. M. Magalhães , A. Pereyra , C. V. Rodrigues

We present an analysis of the theoretical and observed light curve parameters of the fundamental mode (FU) classical Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds in $V$- and $I$- photometric bands. The state-of-the-art 1D non-linear radial stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Kerdaris Kurbah , Sukanta Deb , Shashi M. Kanbur , Susmita Das , Mami Deka , Anupam Bhardwaj , Hugh Riley Randall , Selim Kalici

The seventh part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars (OIII-CVS) consists of 4630 classical Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The sample includes 2626 fundamental-mode (F), 1644 first-overtone (1O), 83 second-overtone (2O),…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 I. Soszynski , R. Poleski , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk

We present a detailed analysis of the light curves and pulsation properties of First Overtone (FO) Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) obtained using observations and predictions from stellar pulsation models. Multiwavelength…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-19 Kerdaris Kurbah , Shashi M. Kanbur , Sukanta Deb , Anupam Bhardwaj , Mami Deka , Susmita Das , Gautam Bhuyan

We present new estimates of the relative distance of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) by using NIR and Optical-NIR Cepheid Period Wesenheit (PW) relations. The relative distances are independent of uncertainties affecting the zero-point of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-09 L. Inno , G. Bono , N. Matsunaga , M. Romaniello , F. Primas , R. Buonanno , F. Caputo , K. Genovali , C. D. Laney , M. Marconi , A. Pietrinferni

We derive the star formation history in four regions of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the deepest VI color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) ever obtained for this galaxy. The images were obtained with the Advanced Camera for Surveys…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Cignoni , A. A. Cole , M. Tosi , J. S. Gallagher , E. Sabbi , J. Anderson , E. K. Grebel , A. Nota

We present an analysis of the period distribution of $\sim 1800$ Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud, based on data obtained by the MACHO microlensing experiment and on a previous catalogue by Payne-Gaposchkin. Using stellar evolution…

Using high-quality observed period-luminosity relations in both Magellanic Clouds in VIJHKs bands and optical and near-infrared Wesenheit indices we determine the effect of metallicity on Cepheid P-L relations by comparing the relative…

We have determined the three-dimensional structure of the Magellanic Clouds and Magellanic Bridge using over $9\,000$ Classical Cepheids (CCs) and almost $23\,000$ RR~Lyrae (RRL) stars from the fourth phase of the OGLE project. For the CCs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-04-06 A. M. Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka , the OGLE Team

Context. Stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are useful probes for studying the chemical and dynamical evolution of this neighbouring dwarf galaxy, enabling inspection of a large period covering over 10 Gyr. Aims: The main…

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The period-luminosity (PL) relation of Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) plays a pivotal role in extra-galactic distance measurement and the determination of the Hubble constant $(H_{0})$. In this work, we probe the geometry of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-12-06 Gautam Bhuyan , Sukanta Deb , Shashi M. Kanbur , Earl P. Bellinger , Mami Deka , Anupam Bhardwaj

Using Spitzer archival data from the SAGE (Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution) program, we derive the Cepheid period-luminosity (P-L) relation at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8 and 8.0 microns for Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Cepheids. These P-L…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Ngeow , S. Kanbur

We present new and independent estimates of the distances to the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) using near-infrared (NIR) and optical--NIR period--Wesenheit (PW) relations. The slopes of the PW relations are, within the dispersion, linear over the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 G. Bono , L. Inno , N. Matsunaga , K. Genovali , B. Lemasle , F. Primas , M. Romaniello

The period-change rate (PCR) of pulsating variable stars is a useful probe of changes in their interior structure, and thus of their evolutionary stages. So far, the PCRs of Classical Cepheids in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have been…

We examine the multi-wavelength period-luminosity-color relations for Cepheid variables in the Large and Small magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. From first-principles stellar physics, the luminosity of a Cepheid is determined by its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Barry F. Madore , Wendy L. Freedman

(ABRIDGED) The evolution and structure of the Magellanic Clouds is presently under debate. The classical scenario where both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC) are orbiting the Milky Way has been challenged by an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Bruno Dias , Leandro Kerber , Beatriz Barbuy , Eduardo Bica , Sergio Ortolani

We present a theoretical investigation of multifilter (U,B,V, I and K) light and radial velocity curves of five Classical Cepheids in NGC 1866, a young massive cluster of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The best fit models accounting for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Marcella Marconi , Roberto Molinaro , Vincenzo Ripepi , Ilaria Musella , Enzo Brocato

We present the three-dimensional kinematics of classical Cepheids (CCs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using Gaia DR3 data. By cross-matching the CCs obtained from the fourth phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment with…

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