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We present results on the recently discovered stellar system YMCA-1, for which physical nature and belonging to any of the Magellanic System galaxies have been irresolutely analyzed. We used SMASH and {\it Gaia} EDR3 data sets to conclude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Andrés E. Piatti , Scott Lucchini

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 provide a homogeneous set of structural parameters of 83 star clusters located at the periphery of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The clusters' stellar density and surface brightness profiles were…

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 use a new contiguous imaging survey conducted using the Dark Energy Camera to investigate the distribution and properties of young stellar populations in the Magellanic inter-Cloud region. These young stars are strongly spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 A. D. Mackey , S. E. Koposov , G. S. Da Costa , V. Belokurov , D. Erkal , F. Fraternali , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , M. Fraser

High spatial resolution imaging with the Hubble Space Telescope allowed us to resolve the compact HII, region N81 lying in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We show the presence of a tight cluster of newborn massive stars embedded in this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Heydari-Malayeri , M. R. Rosa , H. Zinnecker , L. Deharveng , V. Charmandaris

The structure and dynamics of the star-forming disk of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) have long confounded us. The SMC is widely used as a prototype for galactic physics at low metallicity, and yet we fundamentally lack an understanding…

Aims: We present a comprehensive study of the supernova remnant (SNR) population of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We measure multiwavelength properties of the SMC SNRs and compare them to those of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-13 P. Maggi , M. D. Filipovic , B. Vukotic , J. Ballet , F. Haberl , C. Maitra , P. Kavanagh , M. Sasaki , M. Stupar

The supergiant ionized shell SMC-SGS 1 (DEM 167), located in the outer Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), resembles structures that originate from an energetic star-formation event and later stimulate star formation as they expand…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Leah M. Fulmer , John S. Gallagher , Wolf-Rainer Hamann , Lida M. Oskinova , Varsha Ramachandran

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 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

Recent discovery of many dwarf satellite galaxies in the direction of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) provokes questions of their origins, and what they can reveal about galaxy evolution theory. Here, we predict the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Gregory A. Dooley , Annika H. G. Peter , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Anna Frebel , Keith Bechtol , Beth Willman

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

We present proper motion (PM) measurements within the central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using near-infrared data from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC). This work encompasses 18 VMC tiles covering a…

A large number of intermediate-age (~1-2-Gyr old) globular clusters (GCs) in the Large and the Small Magellanic Cloud (MC) exhibit either bimodal or extended main-sequence (MS) turn off and dual red clump. Moreover, recent papers have shown…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. P. Milone

The origin of the gas in between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) -- known as the `Magellanic Bridge' (MB) -- is puzzling. Numerical simulations suggest that the MB formed from tidally stripped gas and stars in a recent interaction between the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Noelia E. D. Noel , Blair C. Conn , Ricardo Carrera , Justin I. Read , Hans-Walter Rix , Andrew Dolphin

We study the luminosity function of intermediate-age red-clump stars using deep, near-infrared photometric data covering $\sim$ 20 deg$^2$ located throughout the central part of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), comprising the main body and…

The projected distribution of stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from the Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey is analysed. Stars of different ages are selected via criteria based on V magnitude and V-I colour, and the degree of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-21 M. Gieles , N. Bastian , B. Ercolano

We present results from Washington CT1 photometry for eleven star fields located in the western outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which cover angular distances to its centre from 2 up to 13 degrees (~ 2.2 - 13.8 kpc). The…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-21 Andrés E. Piatti

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