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Intermediate-age star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds harbour signatures of the multiple stellar populations long thought to be restricted to old globular clusters. We compare synthetic horizontal branch models with Hubble Space Telescope…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-13 W. Chantereau , M. Salaris , N. Bastian , S. Martocchia

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…

The aim of this work is to test to what extent the star cluster population of a galaxy can be utilised to constrain or estimate the star formation history, with the Large Magellanic Cloud as our testbed. We follow two methods to extract…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas Maschberger , Pavel Kroupa

Binary stars play a major role in determining the dynamic evolution of star clusters. We used images collected with the Hubble Space Telescope to study fourteen Magellanic Clouds star clusters that span an age interval between $\sim 0.6$…

The stellar mass-luminosity relation is poorly constrained by observations for high mass stars. We describe our program to find eclipsing massive binaries in the Magellanic Clouds using photometry of regions rich in massive stars, and our…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Philip Massey , Nidia I. Morrell , Kathryn F. Neugent , Laura R. Penny , Kathleen-DeGioia Eastwood , Douglas R. Gies

The ever-expanding depth and quality of photometric and spectroscopic observations of stellar populations increase the need for theoretical models in regions of age-composition parameter space that are largely unexplored at present. Stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aaron Dotter , Brian Chaboyer , Darko Jevremovic , Veselin Kostov , E. Baron , J. W. Ferguson

The uncertainties in the modelling of some important inputs of stellar evolution must be taken into account for a correct interpretation, both of the HR diagrams of individual stars, and of the integrated colors, of stellar clusters. After…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. D'Antona

As first Paper of a series devoted to study the old stellar population in clusters and fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud, we present deep observations of NGC121 in the F555W and F814W filters, obtained with the Advanced Camera for…

We discuss the young population of stars and clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. We present the discovery of pre-main sequence candidates in the nebula N~11 in the Large Magellanic Clouds using HST ACS photometry. The comparison of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-11-30 A. Vallenari

Observations of rich LMC and SMC clusters reveal an increasing spread in core radius with age. This trend likely represents real physical evolution in these systems. Old Magellanic Cloud clusters appear either extended or compact. Similar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

We present colour-magnitude diagrams for two rich (~10^4 Msun) Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters with ages ~10^7 years, constructed from optical and near-infrared data obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope. These data are part of an…

To enlarge our growing sample of well-studied star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), we present CCD Washington CT1 photometry to T1 ~ 23 in the fields of twenty-three mostly unstudied clusters located in the inner disc and outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Tali Palma , Juan J. Clariá , Doug Geisler , Andrés E. Piatti , Andrea V. Ahumada

The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of young star clusters show that, particularly at ultraviolet wavelengths, their upper main sequences (MSs) bifurcate into a sequence comprising the bulk population and a blue periphery. The spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-12 Yujiao Yang , Chengyuan Li , Richard de Grijs , Licai Deng

In a series of three papers, we introduced a novel cluster formation model that describes the formation, growth, and disruption of star clusters in high-resolution cosmological simulations. We tested this model on a Milky Way-sized galaxy…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-18 Hui Li , Oleg Gnedin

The early evolution of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has been the subject of significant recent controversy, particularly regarding the importance and length of the earliest, largely mass-independent disruption phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Richard de Grijs , Simon P. Goodwin

We present a new Bayesian approach to constrain the intrinsic parameters (stellar mass, age) of the eclipsing binary system CEP0227 in the LMC. We computed evolutionary models covering a broad range in chemical compositions and in stellar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. G. Prada Moroni , M. Gennaro , G. Bono , G. Pietrzynski , W. Gieren , B. Pilecki , D. Graczyk , I. B. Thompson , .

We present a morphological analysis of the feature-rich 2MASS LMC color-magnitude diagram, identifying Galactic and LMC populations and estimating the density of LMC populations alone. We also present the projected spatial distributions of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei Nikolaev , Martin D. Weinberg

We investigate the properties and evolution of star particles in two simulations of isolated spiral galaxies, and two galaxies from cosmological simulations. Unlike previous numerical work, where typically each star particle represents one…

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