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NGC1846 and NGC1783 are two massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, hosting both an extended main sequence turn-off and a dual clump of red giants. They present similar masses but differ mainly in angular size. Starting from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefano Rubele , Leo Girardi , Vera Kozhurina-Platais , Leandro Kerber , Paul Goudfrooij , Alessandro Bressan , Paola Marigo

The stellar population and star clusters around six regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are studied to understand the correlation between star formation and cluster formation rates. We used the stellar database of the OGLE II LMC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Annapurni Subramaniam

The origin of the gas in between the Magellanic Clouds (MCs), known as the Magellanic Bridge (MB), has always been the subject of controversy. To shed light into this, we present the results from the MAGIC II project aimed at probing the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-23 Noelia E. D. Noel , Blair C. Conn , Justin I. Read , Ricardo Carrera , Andrew Dolphin , Hans-Walter Rix

Recent high-quality photometry of many star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds with ages of 1$\,-\,$2 Gyr revealed main sequence turnoffs (MSTOs) that are significantly wider than can be accounted for by a simple stellar population (SSP).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paul Goudfrooij , Leo Girardi , Philip Rosenfield , Alessandro Bressan , Paola Marigo , Matteo Correnti , Thomas H. Puzia

We present results from the largest CaII triplet line metallicity study of Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) field red giant stars to date, involving 3037 objects spread across approximately 37.5 sq. deg., centred on this galaxy. We find a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 P. D. Dobbie , A. A. Cole , A. Subramaniam , S. Keller

To study the evolution of binary star clusters we have imaged 7 systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud with SOAR 4-m telescope using B and V filters. The sample contains pairs with well-separated components (d < 30 pc) as well as systems…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. F. C. Santos , A. A. Schmidt , E. Bica

We present colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for a sample of seven young massive clusters in the galaxies NGC 1313, NGC 1569, NGC 1705, NGC 5236 and NGC 7793. The clusters have ages in the range 5-50 million years and masses of 10^5 -10^6…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 S. S. Larsen , S. E. de Mink , J. J. Eldridge , N. Langer , N. Bastian , A. Seth , L. J. Smith , J. Brodie , Y. N. Efremov

In this paper we refine our method for the abundance analysis of high resolution spectroscopy of the integrated light of unresolved globular clusters (GCs). This method was previously demonstrated for the analysis of old ($>$10 Gyr) Milky…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 J. E. Colucci , R. A. Bernstein , S. A. Cameron , A. McWilliam

We have used deep high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope ACS observations to image the cluster NGC 1978 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This high-quality photometric data set allowed us to confirm the high ellipticity (~0.30+-0.02) of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessio Mucciarelli , Francesco R. Ferraro , Livia Origlia , Flavio Fusi Pecci

We present a spectroscopic study of the most massive stars in the young (4 Myr old) stellar cluster LH 95 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This analysis allows us to complete the census of the stellar population of the system, previously…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Da Rio , D. Gouliermis , B. Rochau , A. Pasquali , J. Setiawan , G. De Marchi

We present the third paper about our ongoing HST survey for the search for multiple stellar populations (MPs) within Magellanic Cloud clusters. We report here the analysis of NGC 419, a $\sim 1.5$ Gyr old, massive ($\gtrsim 2 \times 10^5 \,…

We present WFPC2 and ground-based VI photometry of NGC 121 and a nearby field in the outer SMC. For NGC 121, we measure a true distance modulus of (m-M)0 = 18.96 +/- 0.04 (distance of 61.9 +/- 1.1 kpc), age of 10.6 +/- 0.5 Gyr, metallicity…

We present an investigation of the relationship between giant molecular cloud (GMC) properties and the associated stellar clusters in the nearby flocculent galaxy NGC 7793. We combine the star cluster catalog from the HST LEGUS (Legacy…

Integrated spectra have been obtained of 31 star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds (MC) and of 4 Galactic globular clusters. The spectra cover the wavelength range 3500 -- 4700 Angstroms at a resolution of 3.2 Angstroms FWHM. The MC…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Andrew. J. Leonardi , James. A. Rose

Recent observations of intermediate age (1 - 3 Gyr) massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have revealed that the majority possess bifurcated or extended main-sequence turn-off (EMSTO) morphologies. This effect can be…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-27 Stefan C. Keller , A. Dougal Mackey , Gary S. Da Costa

Young and intermediate-age star clusters of both Magellanic Clouds exhibit complex color-magnitude diagrams. In addition to the extended main-sequence turn-offs (eMSTOs), commonly observed in star clusters younger than ~2 Gyr, the clusters…

One of the most unexpected results in the field of stellar populations of the last few years, is the discovery that some Magellanic-Cloud globular clusters younger than ~400 Myr, exhibit bimodal main sequences (MSs) in their color-magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , F. D'Antona , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , H. Jerjen , J. Anderson , A. Dotter , M. Di Criscienzo , E. P. Lagioia

We determine radial- and age-abundance gradients of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using spectra of 2,062 red giant branch (RGB) field stars observed by SDSS-IV / APOGEE-2S. With coverage out to $\sim$9 kpc in the SMC, these data taken…

We used a combination of optical and near-UV Hubble Space Telescope photometry and FLAMES/ESO-VLT high-resolution spectroscopy to characterize the stellar content of the old and massive globular cluster (GC) NGC121 in the Small Magellanic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-05 E. Dalessandro , E. Lapenna , A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro , B. Lanzoni

Recent studies have revealed that the Multiple Populations (MPs) phenomenon does not occur only in ancient and massive Galactic globular clusters (GCs), but it is also observed in external galaxies, where GCs sample a wide age range with…