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Star formation is a hierarchical process, forming young stellar structures of star clusters, associations, and complexes over a wide scale range. The star-forming complex in the bar region of the Large Magellanic Cloud is investigated with…

We re-analyze the age distribution (dN/dt) of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using age determinations based on the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey. For ages younger than 3x10^9 yr the dN/dt distribution can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Gieles , H. J. G. L. M. Lamers , S. F. Portegies Zwart

We supplement current evolutionary computations concerning Magellanic Cloud stars by exploring the evolutionary behavior of canonical stellar models (i.e.,with inefficient core overshooting) with metallicities suitable for stars in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Castellani , S. Degl'Innocenti , M. Marconi , P. G. Prada Moroni , P. Sestito

Massive star evolution at low metallicity is closely connected to many fields in high-redshift astrophysics, but poorly understood. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is a unique laboratory to study this because of its metallicity of 0.2…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-02-17 A. Schootemeijer , N. Langer , D. Lennon , C. J. Evans , P. A. Crowther , S. Geen , I. Howarth , A. de Koter , K. M. Menten , J. S. Vink

In the past years, we have undertaken an extensive investigation of LMC and SMC star clusters based on HST data. We present photometry and astrometry of stars in 101 fields observed with the WFC/ACS, UVIS/WFC3 and NIR/WFC3 cameras. These…

In the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), there have been very few clusters observed with ages between 4 and 11 Gyr. This phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the `LMC age gap'. We constructed a model of the cluster age distribution aimed at…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-12 Jonathan H. Klos , Andrés E. Piatti

We report on the accretion properties of low-mass stars in the LH95 association within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Using non-contemporaneous wide-band and narrow-band photometry obtained with the HST, we identify 245 low-mass pre-main…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-24 Katia Biazzo , Giacomo Beccari , Guido De Marchi , Nino Panagia

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 $\sim 0.6$…

Whether or not the rich star cluster population in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is affected by significant disruption during the first few x 10^8 yr of its evolution is an open question and the subject of significant current debate.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-16 Richard de Grijs , Simon P. Goodwin , Peter Anders

Differences between the inferred star formation histories (SFHs) of star clusters and field stars seem to suggest distinct star formation processes for the two. The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an example of a galaxy where such a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-27 J. M. Diederik Kruijssen , Henny J. G. L. M. Lamers

We present a new optical polarimetric catalog for the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). It contains a total of 7207 stars, located in the Northeast (NE) and Wing sections of the SMC and part of the Magellanic Bridge. This new catalog is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-07-16 A. Lobo Gomes , A. M. Magalhães , A. Pereyra , C. V. Rodrigues

We use high-resolution Hubble Space Telescope imaging data of dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume ($\lesssim 11$ Mpc) to parameterise 19 newly discovered nuclear star clusters (NSCs). Most of the clusters have stellar masses of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-01 Nils Hoyer , Nadine Neumayer , Anil C. Seth , Iskren Y. Georgiev , Jenny E. Greene

The structures of globular clusters (GCs) reflect their dynamical states and past histories. High-resolution imaging allows the exploration of morphologies of clusters in other galaxies. Surface brightness profiles from new Hubble Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 P. Barmby , D. E. McLaughlin , W. E. Harris , G. L. H. Harris , D. A. Forbes

We explore the stellar structure of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) disk using data from the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) and the Dark Energy Survey. We detect a ring-like stellar overdensity in the red clump star count…

We analyzed the shapes of Galactic open clusters by the star counting technique with the 2MASS star catalog database. Morphological parameters such as the ellipticity and size have been derived via stellar density distribution, weighed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. P. Chen , C. W. Chen , C. G. Shu

The YMCA (Yes, Magellanic Clouds Again) and STEP ({The SMC in Time: Evolution of a Prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy) projects are deep g,i photometric surveys carried out with the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) and devoted to study…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-11-11 M. Gatto , V. Ripepi , M. Bellazzini , M. Cignoni , M. -R. L. Cioni , M. Dall'Ora , G. Longo , M. Marconi , P. Schipani , M. Tosi

Aims: To investigate a possible dependence between age and metallicity in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) from a study of small open star clusters, using Str\"{o}mgren photometry. Our goal is to trace evidence of an age metallicity relation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-12 E. Livanou , A. Dapergolas , M. Kontizas , B. Nordström , E. Kontizas , J. Andersen , B. Dirsch , A. Karampelas

We studied the spatial distribution of young and old stellar populations along the western half part of the minor axis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) using Washington MT1 photometry of selected fields, which span a deprojected distance…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-12-06 Andrés E. Piatti

In our HST photometric survey, we have been searching for multiple stellar populations (MPs) in Magellanic Clouds (MCs) massive star clusters which span a significant range of ages ($\sim 1.5-11$ Gyr). In the previous papers of the series,…

In this work we study the internal spatial structure of 16 open clusters in the Milky Way spanning a wide range of ages. For this, we use the minimum spanning tree method (the Q parameter, which enables one to classify the star distribution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-01-04 Nestor Sanchez , Emilio J. Alfaro
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