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(ABRIDGED) The evolution and structure of the Magellanic Clouds is presently under debate. The classical scenario where both the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC, SMC) are orbiting the Milky Way has been challenged by an alternative…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-06-08 Bruno Dias , Leandro Kerber , Beatriz Barbuy , Eduardo Bica , Sergio Ortolani

We analysed Washington $CMT_1$ photometry of star clusters located along the minor axis of the LMC, from the LMC optical centre up to $\sim$ 39 degrees outwards to the North-West. The data base was exploited in order to search for new star…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-18 Andrés E. Piatti , Andrew A. Cole , Bryn Emptage

In this work we study 35 stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in order to provide their mean metallicities and ages. We also provide mean metallicities of the fields surrounding the clusters. We used Str\"omgren photometry…

We present point-source photometry from the Spitzer Space Telescope's final survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We mapped 30 square degrees in two epochs in 2017, with the second extending to early 2018 at 3.6 and 4.5 microns using…

We present and analyze the radial luminosity profiles of a sample of 1066 stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. By design, this study closely follows the compilation by Hill & Zaritsky of the structural parameters of stellar…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-28 Felicia Werchan , Dennis Zaritsky

We report the discovery of a substantial stellar overdensity in the periphery of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), found using public imaging from the first year of the Dark Energy Survey. The structure appears to emanate from the edge of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-04-27 Dougal Mackey , Sergey E. Koposov , Denis Erkal , Vasily Belokurov , Gary S. Da Costa , Facundo A. Gómez

We present J, H, Ks photometry from the the Multi conjugate Adaptive optics Demonstrator (MAD), a visitor instrument at the VLT, of a resolved stellar population in a small crowded field in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud near the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Fiorentino , E. Tolstoy , E. Diolaiti , E. Valenti , M. Cignoni , A. D. Mackey

We have compiled a pseudo-snapshot data set of two-colour observations from the Hubble Space Telescope archive for a sample of 53 rich LMC clusters with ages 10^6-10^10 yr. We present surface brightness profiles for the entire sample, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. D. Mackey , G. F. Gilmore

We present results on the age and metallicity estimates of the astonishingly unstudied SMC cluster ESO 51-SC09, from CCD BVI photometry obtained at the ESO NTT with the EMMI attached. ESO 51-SC09 turns out to be a relatively small cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrés E. Piatti

The outer disk of the LMC is studied in order to unveil clues about its formation and evolution. Complementing our previous studies in innermost fields (3<R<7 kpc), we obtained deep color magnitude diagrams in 6 fields with radius from 5.2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 R. Carrera , C. Gallart , A. Aparicio , E. Hardy

The LMC has a rich star cluster system spanning a wide range of ages and masses. One striking feature of the LMC cluster system is the existence of an age gap between 3-10 Gyrs. Four LMC clusters whose integrated colours are consistent with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-17 Eduardo Balbinot , Basilio Santiago , Leandro Kerber , Batriz Barbuy , Bruno Dias

Oxygen isotope abundances and their ratios are fingerprints of stellar evolution and therefore provide a powerful tool in tracing the enrichment history of galaxies. However, their behavior in low-metallicity dwarf galaxies remains largely…

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 conventional picture of coeval, chemically homogeneous, populous star clusters -- known as `simple stellar populations' (SSPs) -- is a view of the past. Photometric and spectroscopic studies reveal that almost all ancient globular…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-04-07 Shalmalee Kapse , Richard de Grijs , Daniel B. Zucker

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

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…

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

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the host of a rich system of globular clusters (GCs) that span a wide age range. The chemical composition of the SMC clusters is still poorly understood, despite their significance to chemical evolution…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-07-10 A. Mucciarelli , A. Minelli , C. Lardo , D. Massari , M. Bellazzini , D. Romano , L. Origlia , F. R. Ferraro

We present for the first time extended stellar density and/or surface brightness radial profiles for almost all the known Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) old globular clusters (GCs). These were built from DECam images and reach out to ~ 4…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-02 A. E. Piatti , A. D. Mackey