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The Magellanic Clouds are a local laboratory for understanding the evolution and properties of dwarf irregular galaxies. To reveal the extended structure and interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds we have undertaken a large-scale…

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

We have estimated a metallicity map of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS) and Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) photometric data. This is a first of its kind map of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-18 Samyaday Choudhury , Annapurni Subramaniam , Andrew A. Cole

The distribution of RR Lyrae stars (RRLS) in the inner Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and the structure of the halo of the LMC delineated by these stars are studied here. RRLS identified by the OGLE II survey are used to estimate their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Annapurni Subramaniam

We present results from a study of ab-type RR Lyrae variables in the Large Magellanic Cloud using the extensive dataset from phase III of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). The metallicities of the RR Lyraes, determined…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Rachel Wagner-Kaiser , Ata Sarajedini

We present results of the analysis of 70 RR Lyrae stars located in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Combining spectroscopically determined metallicity of these stars from the literature with precise periods from the OGLE III…

We have analyzed a sample of 27,258 fundamental-mode RR Lyrae variable stars (type RRab) detected recently toward the Galactic bulge by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) survey. The data support our earlier claim that…

We present a Bayesian analysis of the distances to 15,040 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) RR Lyrae stars using $V$- and $I$-band light curves from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment, in combination with new $z$-band observations from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-08 Christopher R. Klein , S. B. Cenko , Adam A. Miller , Dara J. Norman , Joshua S. Bloom

Observational studies have identified several sub-structures in different regions of the Magellanic Clouds, the nearest pair of interacting dwarf satellites of the Milky Way. By studying the metallicity of the sources in these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 Abinaya O. Omkumar , Smitha Subramanian , Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Jos de Bruijne

The new data for Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-III) survey allow us to study the three-dimensional distribution of stars corresponding to young (a few tens to a few hundreds of millions of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-05 Raoul Haschke , Eva K. Grebel , Sonia Duffau

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…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 Smitha Subramanian , Annapurni Subramaniam

It has been recently shown from observational data sets the variation of structural parameters and internal dynamical evolution of star clusters in the Milky Way and in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), caused by the different gravitational…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-03 Andrés E. Piatti

We present the catalog of RR Lyrae stars from 2.4 square degrees of central parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The photometric data were collected during four years of the OGLE-II microlensing survey. Photometry of each star was…

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is widely considered a corner-stone of the astronomical distance scale, however a difference of 0.2-0.3 mag exists in its distance as predicted by the "short" and "long" distance scales. Distances to the LMC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Clementini , A. Bragaglia , E. Carretta , L. Di Fabrizio , R. G. Gratton

We present the results of a pilot wide-field radial velocity and metal abundance survey of red giants in ten fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The targets lie at projected distances of 0.9 and 1.9 kpc from the SMC centre…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 R. De Propris , R. M. Rich , R. C. Mallery , C. D. Howard

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has been tidally shaped by the interaction with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The scope of such an interaction has recently been studied from different astrophysical properties of its star cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-15 A. E. Piatti , D. M. F. Illesca , M. Chiarpotti , R. Butrón

We assemble a catalogue of Magellanic Cloud red giants from Data Release 2 of the $Gaia$ mission and, utilising machine learning methods, obtain photometric metallicity estimates for them. In doing so, we are able to chemically map the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 J. Grady , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

We present a new kinematic model for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using data from the \gaia\ Data Release 2 catalog. We identify a sample of astrometrically well-behaved red giant (RG) stars belonging to the SMC and cross-match with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-31 Paul Zivick , Nitya Kallivayalil , Roeland P. van der Marel

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

The third part of the OGLE-III Catalog of Variable Stars comprises 24906 RR Lyr stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This sample consists of 17693 fundamental-mode (RRab), 4958 first-overtone (RRc), 986 double-mode (RRd) and 1269…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , M. K. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , L. Wyrzykowski , O. Szewczyk , K. Ulaczyk , R. Poleski