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At low metallicity, B-type stars show lower loss of mass and, therefore, angular momentum so that it is expected that there are more Be stars in the Magellanic Clouds than in the Milky Way. However, till now, searches for Be stars were only…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Christophe Martayan , Dietrich Baade , Juan Fabregat

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

Context. We use Hubble Space Telescope photometry of six rich, compact star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), with ages ranging from 0.01 to 1.0 Gyr, to derive the clusters' stellar mass functions (MFs) at their half-mass radii.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Q. Liu , R. de Grijs , L. C. Deng , Y. Hu , S. F. Beaulieu

We have investigated a number of globular cluster candidates from a recent wide-field study by Harris et al. (2004a) of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 5128. We used the Magellan I telescope + MagIC camera under excellent seeing (0.3"-0.6")…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Gomez , D. Geisler , W. E. Harris , T. Richtler , G. L. H. Harris , K. Woodley

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is an irregular dwarf galaxy that has recently undergone an interaction with the Large Magellanic Cloud. The young massive stars in the SMC formed in the disturbed low-metallicity environment are important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-14 Sipra Hota , Annapurni Subramaniam , Prasanta K. Nayak , Smitha Subramanian

The presence of blue straggler stars (BSs) in star clusters has proven a challenge to conventional simple stellar population (SSP) models. Conventional SSP models are based on the evolution theory of single stars. Meanwhile, the typical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. Xin , L. Deng , R. de Grijs , A. D. Mackey , Z. Han

We present results from the analysis of 2997 fundamental mode RR Lyrae variables located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). For these objects near-infrared time-series photometry from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC)…

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

We compare the observed bivariate distribution of masses(M) and ages(t) of star clusters in the LMC with the predicted distributions g(M,t) from 3 idealized models for the disruption of star clusters: (1)sudden mass-dependent…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 Rupali Chandar , S. Michael Fall , Bradley C. Whitmore

The King and the EFF (Elson, Fall & Freeman 1987) analytical models are employed to determine the structural parameters of star clusters using an 1-D surface brightness profile fitting method. The structural parameters are derived and a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Sableviciute , V. Vansevicius , K. Kodaira , D. Narbutis , R. Stonkute , A. Bridzius

We present new imaging measurements of 27 individual globular clusters in the halo of the nearby elliptical galaxy NGC 5128, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope STIS and WFPC2 cameras. Combining these with similar data for selected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. E. Harris , G. L. H. Harris , S. T. Holland , D. E. McLaughlin

We analyze the structural parameters of the largest-available sample of spatially resolved extragalactic globular clusters. The images of M31 GCs were found in a search of HST archival data, described in a companion paper. We measure the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Barmby , S. Holland , J. P. Huchra

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

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 use a new contiguous imaging survey conducted using the Dark Energy Camera to investigate the distribution and properties of young stellar populations in the Magellanic inter-Cloud region. These young stars are strongly spatially…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-11 A. D. Mackey , S. E. Koposov , G. S. Da Costa , V. Belokurov , D. Erkal , F. Fraternali , N. M. McClure-Griffiths , M. Fraser

We present spectroscopy of individual stars in 26 Magellanic Cloud (MC) star clusters with the aim of estimating dynamical masses and $V$-band mass-to-light ($M/L_V$) ratios over a wide range in age and metallicity. We obtained 3137…

We present radial surface brightness profiles for all five globular clusters in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, and for the four present members of the Sagittarius dwarf spheroidal galaxy. These profiles are derived from archival Hubble…

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

We have used Washington photometry for 90 star cluster candidates of small angular size -typically ~ 11" in radius- distributed within nine selected regions in the inner disc of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) to disentangle whether they…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Andres E. Piatti

We present results on the recently discovered stellar system YMCA-1, for which physical nature and belonging to any of the Magellanic System galaxies have been irresolutely analyzed. We used SMASH and {\it Gaia} EDR3 data sets to conclude…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Andrés E. Piatti , Scott Lucchini

We confirm the existence of a second Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) star cluster, KMHK 1592, with an age that falls in the middle of the so-called LMC star cluster age gap, a long period of time (~ 4 - 11 Gyr) where no star cluster had been…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-09 Andrés E. Piatti