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We use data on variable stars from the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) survey to determine the three-dimensional structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Deriving individual distances to RR Lyrae stars and Cepheids…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Raoul Haschke , Eva K. Grebel , Sonia Duffau

In this work we estimate, for the first time, the total masses and mass function slopes of a sample of 29 young and intermediate-age SMC clusters from CCD Washington photometry. We also derive age, interstellar reddening and structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 F. F. S. Maia , A. E. Piatti , J. F. C. Santos

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…

With the release of Gaia DR2, it is now possible to measure the proper motions (PMs) of the lowest mass, ultra-faint satellite galaxies in the Milky Way's (MW) halo for the first time. Many of these faint satellites are posited to have been…

We present Hubble Space Telescope ACS deep photometry of the intermediate-age globular cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. By using this photometric dataset, we have determined the degree of ellipticity of the cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 A. Mucciarelli , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro

The VISTA near infrared Y, J, Ks survey of the Magellanic System (VMC) is collecting deep Ks band time series photometry of pulsating variable stars hosted by the two Magellanic Clouds and their connecting Bridge. In this paper, we present…

We present high-resolution maps of the dust reddening in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The maps cover the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC) area and have a spatial angular resolution between $\sim$ 26 arcsec and 55 arcmin. Based…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-19 B. -Q. Chen , H. -L. Guo , J. Gao , M. Yang , Y. -L. Liu , B. -W. Jiang

We report the first search for new star clusters performed using the VISTA near-infrared YJKs Magellanic Clouds survey (VMC) data sets. We chose a pilot field of ~ 0.4 deg^2 located in the South-West of the Small Magelllanic Cloud (SMC)…

The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud (LMC and SMC) form the closest interacting galactic system to the Milky Way, therewith providing a laboratory to test cosmological models in the local Universe. We quantify the likelihood for the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-10-02 Moritz Haslbauer , Indranil Banik , Pavel Kroupa , Hongsheng Zhao , Elena Asencio

The Magellanic Clouds are a stepping stone from the overwhelming detail of the Milky Way in which we are immersed, to the global characteristics of galaxies both in the nearby and distant universe. They are interacting, gas-rich dwarf…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-09-06 Jacco Th. van Loon , The GASKAP Team , The MagiKAT Team

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been observed by both the Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX) in the mid-infrared and the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in the near-infrared. We have performed a cross-correlation of the 1806 MSX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Michael P. Egan , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Stephan D. Price

We present structural parameters for 204 stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud derived from fitting King and Elson, Fall, & Freeman model profiles to the V-band surface brightness profiles as measured from the Magellanic Clouds…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Andrew Hill , Dennis Zaritsky

I present the latest results from our group about the multiple stellar populations in the old Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) and in the young systems both in the Magellanic Clouds and in the Milky Way. For the ancient GCs in our Galaxy I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Anna F. Marino

We present flux-calibrated integrated spectra in the optical range (3700-6800 \AA) obtained at Complejo Astron\'omico El Leoncito (CASLEO, Argentina) for a sample of 10 concentrated star clusters belonging to the Large Magellanic Cloud…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-29 Andrea V. Ahumada , Luis R. Vega , Juan J. Clariá , Mónica A. Oddone , Tali Palma

We report our initial discovery of 73 new planetary nebulae (PNe) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) following confirmatory 2dF spectroscopy on the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT). Preliminary candidate sources come from a 10 per cent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Warren A. Reid , Quentin A. Parker

We present CMDs in the V and I bands for fifteen star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on data taken with the Very Large Telescope (VLT, Chile). We selected these clusters from our previous work, wherein we derived cluster…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-05 M. C. Parisi , D. Geisler , G. Carraro , J. J. Clariá , E. Costa , A. J. Grocholski , A. Sarajedini , R. Leiton , A. E. Piatti

We present for the first time extended stellar density and/or surface brightness radial profiles for almost all the known Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) old globular clusters (GCs). These were built from DECam images and reach out to ~ 4…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 A. E. Piatti , A. D. Mackey

We review our understanding of the kinematics of the LMC and the SMC, and their orbit around the Milky Way. The line-of-sight velocity fields of both the LMC and SMC have been mapped with high accuracy using thousands of discrete traces, as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roeland P. van der Marel , Nitya Kallivayalil , Gurtina Besla

The multi-epoch YJKs sub-arcsecond photometry of the VMC survey provides a long anticipated deep near-infrared (NIR) window into further understanding the stellar populations of the Magellanic Clouds. The first year of observations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 B. Miszalski , R. Napiwotzki , M. -R. L. Cioni , M. A. T. Groenewegen , J. M. Oliveira , A. Udalski , J. Nie

Recent discovery of many dwarf satellite galaxies in the direction of the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC and LMC) provokes questions of their origins, and what they can reveal about galaxy evolution theory. Here, we predict the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-20 Gregory A. Dooley , Annika H. G. Peter , Jeffrey L. Carlin , Anna Frebel , Keith Bechtol , Beth Willman