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Classical Cepheids are key probes of both stellar astrophysics and cosmology as standard candles and pulsating variable stars. It is important to understand Cepheids in unprecedented detail in preparation for upcoming GAIA, JWST and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-16 Hilding R. Neilson , Robert G. Izzard , Norbert Langer , Richard Ignace

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…

We explore the structural and kinematic properties of the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using data from the Magellanic Edges Survey (MagES) and Gaia EDR3. Even at large galactocentric radii ($8^\circ<R<11^\circ$), we find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-30 L. R. Cullinane , A. D. Mackey , G. S. Da Costa , D. Erkal , S. E. Koposov , V. Belokurov

We have applied the infrared surface brightness (ISB) technique to derive distances to 13 Cepheids in the LMC which span a period range from 3 to 42 days. From the absolute magnitudes of the variables calculated from these distances, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 W. Gieren , J. Storm , T. G. Barnes , P. Fouque , G. Pietrzynski , F. Kienzle

We present a sample of 76 double-mode Cepheids detected in the 4.5 square degree area in the central part of the LMC. 19 stars from the sample pulsate in the fundamental mode and the first overtone while 57 objects are the first and second…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Soszynski , A. Udalski , M. Szymanski , M. Kubiak , G. Pietrzynski , P. Wozniak , K. Zebrun

We have analysed photometric data for the first overtone Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds from the OGLE collection. In more than 500 stars, we have detected additional variability with periods shorter than the first overtone period and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-26 M. Sniegowska , R. Smolec

We present a study of simultaneous determination of mean distance and reddening to the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the two photometric band RR Lyrae data. Currently available largest number of highly accurate and precise light curve…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-20 Sukanta Deb

We present a sample of the most interesting classical Cepheids selected from the OGLE collection of classical Cepheids in the Magellanic System. The main selection criterion for this sample was the presence of non-standard, unique…

The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is crucial for the calibration of the Cosmic Distance Scale. We derive a distance to the LMC based on an analysis of ground-based photometry and HST-based spectroscopy and spectrophotometry…

Period change studies give a window to probe into the evolution and dynamics of Cepheids. While evolutionary period changes have been well studied both observationally and theoretically, non-evolutionary period changes lack a systematic and…

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

A summary of recent Large Magellanic Cloud distance determinations mu(LMC) is presented, with an eye towards pinpointing the source(s) of the resulting large discrepancies encountered between some of the techniques. Thirty-eight recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brad K. Gibson

This paper presents the first distance measurement to the massive, semi-detached, eclipsing binary LMC-SC1-105, located in the LH 81 association of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Previously determined parameters of the system are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alceste Z. Bonanos , Norberto Castro , Lucas M. Macri , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki

In this paper we derive the Spitzer IRAC band period-luminosity (P-L) relations for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Cepheids, by matching the Spitzer archival SAGE-SMC data with the OGLE-III SMC Cepheids. We find that the 3.6micron and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Chow-Choong Ngeow , Shashi M. Kanbur

We investigate structural, kinematical, and chemical properties of stars and gas in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) interacting with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Galaxy based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenji Bekki , Masashi Chiba

We have obtained deep infrared J and K band observations of nine 4.9x4.9 arcmin fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with the ESO New Technology Telescope equipped with the SOFI infrared camera. In these fields, 34 RR Lyrae stars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Olaf Szewczyk , Grzegorz Pietrzynski , Wolfgang Gieren , Anna Ciechanowska , Fabio Bresolin , Rolf-Peter Kudritzki

The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 20 Milky Way (MW), 9 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), 7 Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), 12 M31, and 7 M33 (classical) Cepheids with periods longer than 50 days were constructed using photometric data…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-08 Martin Groenewegen

We have introduced a semi-automated quantitative method to estimate the age and reddening of 1072 star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) III survey data. This study brings…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-24 P. K. Nayak , A. Subramaniam , S. Choudhury , G. Indu , Ram Sagar

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

The VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) is a public survey project of the European Southern Observatory. It is collecting multi-band near-infrared data across large areas of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-29 Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , the VMC team