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We present high-resolution (R~60,000) optical spectra of a carefully selected sample of heavily obscured and presumably massive O-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). We report the discovery of strong Rb…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 D. A. Garcia-Hernandez , A. Manchado , D. L. Lambert , B. Plez , P. Garcia-Lario , F. D'Antona , M. Lugaro , A. I. Karakas , M. van Raai

We present ISO photometric and spectroscopic observations of a sample of 57 bright Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and red supergiants in the Large Magellanic Cloud, selected on the basis of IRAS colours indicative of high mass-loss rates.…

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…

We present the result of a survey for star clusters in M33 using the HST/WFPC2 archive images. We have found 104 star clusters, including 32 new ones, in the images of 24 fields that were not included in the previous studies. Combining…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Won-Kee Park , Myung Gyoon Lee

Observations of hot stars belonging to the young cluster SMC-NGC330 and its surrounding region were obtained with the VLT-GIRAFFE facilities in MEDUSA mode. We investigated the B and Be star properties and proportions in this environment of…

We recently discovered a large number of highly active Be stars in the open cluster NGC 3766, making it an excellent location to study the formation mechanism of Be star disks. To explore whether similar disk appearances and/or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 M. Virginia McSwain , Wenjin Huang , Douglas R. Gies

We report the extragalactic radio-continuum detection of 15 planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) from recent Australia Telescope Compact Array+Parkes mosaic surveys. These detections were supplemented by new and high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. D. Filipović , M. Cohen , W. A. Reid , J. L. Payne , Q. A. Parker , E. J. Crawford , I. S. Bojičić , A. Y. De Horta , A. Hughes , J. Dickel , F. Stootman

There is evidence that some red supergiants (RSGs) experience short lived phases of extreme mass loss, producing copious amounts of dust. These episodic outburst phases help to strip the hydrogen envelope of evolved massive stars,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-18 S. de Wit , A. Z. Bonanos , F. Tramper , M. Yang , G. Maravelias , K. Boutsia , N. Britavskiy , E. Zapartas

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) currently hosts around 23 high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) of which most are Be/X-ray binaries. The LMC XMM-Newton survey provided follow-up observations of previously known X-ray sources that were likely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 N. van Jaarsveld , D. A. H. Buckley , V. A. McBride , F. Haberl , G. Vasilopoulos , C. Maitra , A. Udalski , B. Miszalski

We present an analysis of optical lightcurves of Small Magellanic Cloud Be-type stars. Observations show that (1) optical excess flux is correlated with near-IR excess flux indicating a similar mechanism and (2) the lightcurves can trace…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. de Wit , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , J. B. Marquette , J. P. Beaulieu

The Magellanic Clouds, the closest star-forming galaxies to the Milky Way, offer an excellent environment to study high-mass X-ray binaries. While the Small Magellanic Cloud has been thoroughly investigated with over 120 systems identified,…

Due to their close proximity, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (SMC/LMC) provide natural laboratories for understanding how galaxies form and evolve. With the goal of determining the structure and dynamical state of the SMC, we present…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-06 Michele De Leo , Ricardo Carrera , Noelia E. D. Noel , Justin I. Read , Denis Erkal , Carme Gallart

We explore the Gaia DR2 proper motions of six young, main-sequence stars, members of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) reported by Moni Bidin et al. (2017). These stars are located in the outskirts of the disk, between 7 and 13 degrees from…

We present a map of the total intrinsic reddening across ~34 deg$^{2}$ of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) derived using optical ($ugriz$) and near-infrared (IR; $YJK_{\mathrm{s}}$) spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of background…

Stellar pulsations in main-sequence B-type stars are driven by the $\kappa$-mechanism due to the Fe-group opacity bump. The current models do not predict the presence of instability strips in the B spectral domain at very low metallicities.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-02 P. D. Diago , J. Gutiérrez-Soto , J. Fabregat , C. Martayan , J. Suso

We present four new planetary nebulae (PNe) discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) from deep UK Schmidt telescope (UKST) narrow band H-alpha and broad-band short-red "SR" continuum images and confirmed spectroscopically. All new PNe…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-26 Danica Drašković , Quentin A. Parker , Warren A. Reid , Milorad Stupar

We report the discovery of two new R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using the MACHO project photometry database. The identification of both stars has been confirmed spectroscopically. One is a cool RCB star…

[abridged] We present 52-93 micron spectra obtained with Spitzer in the MIPS-SED mode, of a representative sample of luminous compact far-IR sources in the LMC. These include carbon stars, OH/IR AGB stars, post-AGB objects and PNe,…

The stellar mass-luminosity relation is poorly constrained by observations for high mass stars. We describe our program to find eclipsing massive binaries in the Magellanic Clouds using photometry of regions rich in massive stars, and our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philip Massey , Nidia I. Morrell , Kathryn F. Neugent , Laura R. Penny , Kathleen-DeGioia Eastwood , Douglas R. Gies

Following an approach developed by Paczy\'nski & Stanek, we derive a distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) by comparing red clump stars from the Hipparcos catalog with the red clump stars observed in two fields in the LMC that were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Z. Stanek , D. Zaritsky , J. Harris