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In this work we analyse Colour-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) of catalogued star clusters located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from a YJKs photometric data set obtained by the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA)…

The main goal of this study is to compile a catalogue including the fundamental parameters of a complete sample of 277 star clusters (SCs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the Washington photometric system, including 82…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Tali Palma , Luciana V. Gramajo , Juan J. Clariá , Marcelo Lares , Doug Geisler , Andrea V. Ahumada

The autocorrelation function provides an objective test for the existence of special scales in the hierarchical clustering of young stars. We apply this measure to single-star photometry for the brightest main sequence stars in the Small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-04-30 Mary Crone Odekon

We explore the stellar structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using data from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) and the Dark Energy Survey. We detect a ring-like stellar overdensity in the red clump star count…

We present the spatially-resolved star formation and chemical enrichment history of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) across the entire central $4-degree x 4.5-degree area of the main body, based on UBVI photometry from our Magellanic Clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 J. Harris , D. Zaritsky

We present a study of three-dimensional structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The $V$- and $I$-band light curves of the fundamental mode RR Lyrae stars (RRab) obtained by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)-III…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-23 Sukanta Deb , Harinder P. Singh , Subhash Kumar , Shashi M. Kanbur

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 structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) outside of its main body is characterised by tidal branches resulting from its interactions mainly with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Characterising the stellar populations in these…

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…

We discuss how tidal interaction between the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), and the Galaxy triggers galaxy-wide star formation in the Clouds for the last ~0.2 Gyr based on our chemodynamical simulations on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Kenji Bekki

We present age measurements for 195 star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud based on comparison of integrated colors measured from the Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey with models of simple stellar populations. We find that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Marc Rafelski , Dennis Zaritsky

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

The properties of 939 star clusters in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds were determined from ground-based CCD images in UBVR passbands. The areal coverage was extensive, corresponding to 11.0 sq-kpc in the LMC and 8.3 sq-kpc in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. A. Hunter , B. G. Elmegreen , T. J. Dupuy , M. Mortonson

In this paper, we study the age and spatial distributions of Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) as a function of their ages using the data from the OGLE III photometric catalogue. A period-age (PA) relation derived for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-18 Yogesh C. Joshi , Auro Mohanty , Santosh Joshi

Our Galaxy is surrounded by a large family of dwarf galaxies of which the most massive are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). Recent evidence suggests that systems with the mass of the Local Group accrete galaxies in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Matthew Nichols , James Colless , Matthew Colless , Joss Bland-Hawthorn

We present a comparative study of the size-line width relation for substructures within six molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) mapped with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Our sample extends our…

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 derive the spatially-resolved star formation history (SFH) for a $96$ deg$^2$ area across the main body of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the near-infrared photometry from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC). The…

We measure the angular correlation function of stars in a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that spans 2 degrees by 1.5 degrees. We find that the correlation functions of stellar populations are represented well by exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky