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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 report the discovery of diffuse stellar substructure in the Milky Way's outer halo toward Bo\"otes, unveiled by deep imaging data of the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam. This substructure is detected as an excess of faint main-sequence stars,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-14 Yoshihisa Suzuki , Masashi Chiba , Rosemary F. G. Wyse

The age distribution function of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is known to present a feature called the cluster age gap, a period of time from ~ 4 to 11 Gyr ago with a remarkable small number of clusters identified. In…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-07-28 Andrés E. Piatti

The Magellanic Clouds (MCs) offer a unique laboratory for studying galaxy interaction and the evolution of dwarf galaxies. By investigating when and how stars formed, the star formation history (SFH) is a powerful tool to provide…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 F. Ficara , V. Ripepi , M. Cignoni , M. Gatto , M. Marconi , M. Tosi , M. Bellazzini , E. K. Grebel , M. R. Cioni , C. Tortora , A. Mercurio

As a follow up to our recent study of a large sample of LMC clusters (astro-ph/0209031), we have conducted a similar study of the structures of ten SMC clusters, using archival Hubble Space Telescope snapshot data. We present surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

We present results from two statistical analyses applied to an neutral hydrogen (HI) dataset of the nearby tidal bridge in the Magellanic System. Primarily, analyses of the Spatial Power Spectrum suggest that the Magellanic Bridge,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 E. Muller , S. Stanimirovic , E. Rosolowsky , L. Staveley-Smith

We analyse deep images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds in the YJKs filters, covering 14 sqrdeg (10 tiles), split into 120 subregions, and comprising the main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We apply a…

Stellar streams are excellent probes of the underlying gravitational potential in which they evolve. In this work, we fit dynamical models to five streams in the Southern Galactic hemisphere, combining observations from the Southern Stellar…

We examine Milky Way-Magellanic Cloud systems selected from the Millennium-II Simulation in order to place the orbits of the Magellanic Clouds in a cosmological context. Our analysis shows that satellites massive enough to be LMC analogs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-06-09 Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Gurtina Besla , Lars Hernquist

The formation of the Magellanic Bridge during an encounter between the Magellanic Clouds $\sim$200 Myr ago would be imprinted in the chemical evolution and kinematics of its stellar population, with sites of active star formation. Since it…

We use cosmological simulations from the Aquarius Project to study the orbital history of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and its potential association with other satellites of the Milky Way (MW). We search for dynamical analogs to the LMC…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Laura V. Sales , Julio F. Navarro , Andrew P. Cooper , Simon D. M. White , Carlos S. Frenk , Amina Helmi

We present a combined analysis of the kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud through its HI gas, carbon stars, and red supergiant stars. After correcting the line-of-sight velocities for the recent accurate measurement of the LMC's space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Knut A. G. Olsen , Philip Massey

We report results of proper motions of 25 known Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) clusters (ages ~ 1 - 10 Gyr old) derived from Gaia EDR3 data sets. When these mean proper motions are gathered with existent radial velocity measurements to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-06-09 Andrés E. Piatti

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

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

An expression is provided for the self-lensing optical depth of the thin LMC disk surrounded by a shroud of stars at larger scale heights. The formula is written in terms of the vertical velocity dispersion of the thin disk population. If…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 N. W. Evans , E. J. Kerins

The interaction between the supersonic motion of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Circumgalactic Medium (CGM) is expected to result in a bow shock that leads the LMC's gaseous disk. In this letter, we use hydrodynamic simulations of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-11-20 David J. Setton , Gurtina Besla , Ekta Patel , Cameron Hummels , Yong Zheng , Evan Schneider

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 Magellanic Stream (MS) - an enormous ribbon of gas spanning $140^\circ$ of the southern sky trailing the Magellanic Clouds - has been exquisitely mapped in the five decades since its discovery. However, despite concerted efforts, no…

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
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