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The internal kinematics of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk have been modeled by several studies using different tracers with varying coverage, resulting in a range of parameters. Here, we modeled the LMC disk using 1705 star clusters…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 S. R. Dhanush , A. Subramaniam , S. Subramanian

We present our catalog of U, B, V, and I stellar photometry of the central 64 sq. deg. area of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Internal and external astrometric and photometric tests using existing optical photometry (U, B, and V from Massey's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Dennis Zaritsky , Jason Harris , Ian B. Thompson , Eva K. Grebel

We present the analysis of deep colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of 6 stellar fields in the LMC. The data were obtained using HST/WFPC2 in the I and V filters, reaching V=26.5. We discuss and apply a method of correcting CMDs for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. C. Javiel , B. X. Santiago , L. O. Kerber

The Ks band differential star count of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) is used to derive the global structure parameters of the smooth components of the Milky Way. To avoid complication introduced by other fine structures and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Chan-Kao Chang , Chung-Ming Ko , Ting-Hung Peng

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in gamma-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100GeV as an extended source with CGRO/EGRET and using early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-09 LAT Collaboration

We present an analysis of line-of-sight extinction measurements obtained using data from the Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey, which provides 4-filter photometry for millions of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We find that visual…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-28 Dennis Zaritsky

We assemble a catalogue of Magellanic Cloud red giants from Data Release 2 of the $Gaia$ mission and, utilising machine learning methods, obtain photometric metallicity estimates for them. In doing so, we are able to chemically map the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 J. Grady , V. Belokurov , N. W. Evans

Detailed 4.8- and 8.6-GHz radio images of the entire Large Magellanic Cloud with half-power beamwidths of 33" at 4.8 GHz and 20" at 8.6 GHz have been obtained using the Australia Telescope Compact Array. A total of 7085 mosaic positions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. R. Dickel , V. J. McIntyre , R. A. Gruendl , D. K. Milne

We investigate the dynamical and chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) interacting with the Galaxy and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) based on a series of self-consistent chemodynamical simulations. Our numerical models…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Bekki , M. Chiba

We present a mosaic image of the 1.4GHz radio continuum emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Parkes Telescope. The mosaic covers 10.8 x 12.3 square degrees with an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Hughes , L. Staveley-Smith , S. Kim , M. Wolleben , M. Filipović

We study the morphology of the stellar periphery of the Magellanic Clouds in search of substructure using near-infrared imaging data from the VISTA Hemisphere Survey (VHS). Based on the selection of different stellar populations using the…

We present an overview of, and first science results from, the Magellanic Edges Survey (MagES), an ongoing spectroscopic survey mapping the kinematics of red clump and red giant branch stars in the highly substructured periphery of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-07-22 L. R. Cullinane , A. D. Mackey , G. S. Da Costa , S. E. Koposov , V. Belokurov , D. Erkal , A. Koch , A. Kunder , D. M. Nataf

We present results from an analysis of $\sim$ 29,000 RR Lyrae stars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). For these objects, near-infrared time-series photometry from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) and optical…

As a follow up to our recent study of a large sample of LMC clusters (astro-ph/0209031), we have conducted a similar study of the structures of ten SMC clusters, using archival Hubble Space Telescope snapshot data. We present surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

Approximately four thousand light curves of red variable stars in the LMC were selected from the 2.3-years duration MOA database by a period analysis using the Phase Dispersion Minimization method. Their optical features (amplitudes,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Sachiyo Noda , Mine Takeuti

The distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is crucial for the calibration of the Cosmic Distance Scale. We derive a distance to the LMC based on an analysis of ground-based photometry and HST-based spectroscopy and spectrophotometry…

We report on the astrophysical properties of a sample of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). They have been selected with the aim of looking for the connection between their ages, heliocentric distances and metallicities with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-12 Denis M. F. Illesca , Andrés E. Piatti , Matías Chiarpotti , Roberto Butrón

Zaritsky and Lin have recently suggested that the color magnitude diagram of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) contains evidence of foreground red clump stars. They interpret this as evidence of tidal debris or a dwarf galaxy at a distance…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 David P. Bennett

We present a careful and detailed light curve analysis of publicly available $I$-band data on fundamental mode RR Lyrae (RRab) stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) obtained by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sukanta Deb , Harinder P. Singh

The Hipparcos I-band calibration of horizontal-branch red clump giants as standard candles has lead to controversial results for the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In an attempt to properly ascertain the corrections for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 David R. Alves , Marina Rejkuba , Dante Minniti , Kem H. Cook