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We present a high quality CMD for a 36'x 36' field located 8 degrees (7 kpc) from the LMC center, as well as a precise determination of the LMC surface brightness derived from the resolved stellar population out to this large galactocentric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Gallart , P. B. Stetson , E. Hardy , F. Pont , R. Zinn

We present Washington system colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for 17 practically unstudied star clusters located in the bar as well as in the inner disc and outer regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Cluster sizes were estimated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Tali Palma , Juan J. Clariá , Doug Geisler , Luciana V. Gramajo , Andrea V. Ahumada

Stellar ages are critical for understanding the temporal evolution of a galaxy. We calculate the ages of over 6000 red giant branch stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed with SDSS-IV / APOGEE-S. Ages are derived using…

Recent discoveries have put the picture of stellar clusters being simple stellar populations into question. In particular, the color-magnitude diagrams of intermediate age (1-2 Gyr) massive clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) show…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-23 Florian Niederhofer , Michael Hilker , Nate Bastian , Esteban Silva-Villa

We analyze ages and metallicities for some 5.5 million stars distributed throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) main body, obtained from CCD Washington CT1 photometry. We produce a comprehensive field star Age-Metallicity Relationship…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-11 Andrés E. Piatti , Doug Geisler

Recent studies have shown that the observed main-sequence turn-off (MSTO) in colour-magnitude diagrams of intermediate age (1-2 Gyr) clusters in the LMC are broader than would be nominally expected for a simple stellar population. This has…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Nate Bastian , Esteban Silva-Villa

The discovery of multiple MSs in NGC2808 and Omega Centauri, and multiple SGBs in NGC1851 and NGC6388 has challenged the long-held paradigm that GCs consist of simple stellar populations. This picture has been further complicated by recent…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. P. Milone , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , J. Anderson

We present an analysis of the stellar kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud based on ~5900 new and existing velocities of massive red supergiants, oxygen-rich and carbon-rich AGB stars, and other giants. After correcting the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-01-04 Knut A. G. Olsen , Dennis Zaritsky , Robert D. Blum , Martha L. Boyer , Karl D. Gordon

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

The (rest-frame) near-IR domain contains important stellar population diagnostics and is often used to estimate masses of galaxies at low as well as high redshifts. However, many stellar population models are still relatively poorly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter M. Pessev , Paul Goudfrooij , Thomas H. Puzia , Rupali Chandar

The number of star clusters that populate the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) at deprojected distances < 4 deg has been recently found to be nearly double the known size of the system. Because of the unprecedented consequences of this outcome…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-14 Andrés E. Piatti

We leverage new high-quality data from Hubble Space Telescope program GO-14164 to explore the variation in horizontal branch morphology among globular clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Our new observations lead to photometry…

Detailed studies of intermediate/low mass pre-main sequence (PMS) stars outside the Galaxy have so far been conducted only for small targeted regions harbouring known star formation complexes. The VISTA Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC)…

We present deep colour-magnitude diagrams for three rich intermediate-age star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud, constructed from archival ACS F435W and F814W imaging. All three clusters exhibit clear evidence for peculiar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Mackey , P. Broby Nielsen , A. M. N. Ferguson , J. C. Richardson

We present a detailed view of cluster formation (CF) to trace the evolution and interaction history of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) in the last 3.5 Gyr. Using the \textit{Gaia} DR3 data, we parameterized 1710 and 280 star clusters in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-11 S. R. Dhanush , A. Subramaniam , Prasanta K. Nayak , S. Subramanian

A large number of intermediate-age (~1-2-Gyr old) globular clusters (GCs) in the Large and the Small Magellanic Cloud (MC) exhibit either bimodal or extended main-sequence (MS) turn off and dual red clump. Moreover, recent papers have shown…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. P. Milone

We present Washington C, T1 CCD photometry of 21 fields located in the northern part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and spread over a region of more than 2.52 degrees approximately 6 degrees from the bar. The surveyed areas were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Piatti , D. Geisler , E. Bica , J. J. Claria , J. F. C. Santos , A. Sarajedini , H. Dottori

We use multi-epoch near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure the proper motion of stars of the LMC, in one tile of 1.5 deg^2 centred at (alpha, delta) = (05:59:23.136, -66:20:28.68) and…

We present the detection of very extended stellar populations around the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) out to R~21 degrees, or ~18.5 kpc at the LMC distance of 50 kpc, as detected in the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH)…