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An analysis is made of the abundances of planetary nebulae (PN) in the Galaxy (MW), the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The data has been gathered by the IAG/USP group in a homogeneous procedure, involving…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. J. Maciel , R. D. D. Costa , T. E. P. Idiart

We present details of the database from a large Cycle 7 HST project to study the formation and evolution of rich star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (see Elson et al., this volume). Our data set, which includes NICMOS, WFPC2 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. F. Beaulieu , R. Elson , G. Gilmore , R. A. Johnson , N. Tanvir , B. Santiago

The Magellanic Clouds are nearby dwarf irregular galaxies whose morphologies show different properties when traced by different stellar populations, making them an important laboratory for studying galaxy morphologies. We study the…

Early X-ray surveys of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) were performed with the imaging instruments of the Einstein, ASCA and ROSAT satellites revealing discrete X-ray sources and large-scale diffuse emission. Large samples of supernova…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-18 F. Haberl , W. Pietsch

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of various stellar populations within the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. We use optically selected stellar samples with mean ages between ~9 and ~1000 Myr, and existing stellar cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 N. Bastian , M. Gieles , B. Ercolano , R. Gutermuth

A popular interpretation of recent microlensing studies of the line of sight towards the Large Magellanic Cloud invokes a population of old white dwarf stars in the Galactic halo. Below I review the basic properties of old white dwarf stars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Brad M. S. Hansen

We measure the angular correlation function of stars in a region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) that spans 2 degrees by 1.5 degrees. We find that the correlation functions of stellar populations are represented well by exponential…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jason Harris , Dennis Zaritsky

In this study, we conduct a pilot program aimed at the red supergiant population of the Magellanic Clouds. We intend to extend the current known sample to the unexplored low end of the brightness distribution of these stars, building a more…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Carlos González-Fernández , Ricardo Dorda , Ignacio Negueruela , Amparo Marco

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) has recently been found to harbour more than two hundred per cent increase of its known cluster population. We provide here with solid evidence that such an unprecedented number of clusters could be largely…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Andrés E. Piatti

Until recently our knowledge of the Galactic Bulge stellar populations was based on the study of a few low extinction windows. Large photometric and spectroscopic surveys are now underway to map large areas of the bulge. They probe several…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2012-10-09 Carine Babusiaux

We identify a vertical extension of the red clump stars in the color magnitude diagram (CMD) of a section of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). After subtracting the principal red clump component, we find a peak in the residual stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Dennis Zaritsky , D. N. C. Lin

We report on observations of the stellar populations in twelve fields spanning the region between the Magellanic Clouds, made with the Mosaic-II camera on the 4-meter telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The two main…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jason Harris

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 Magellanic Clouds are the only external galaxies known to host radio pulsars. The dispersion and rotation measures of pulsars in the Clouds can aid in understanding their structure, and studies of the pulsars themselves can point to…

This is the second paper in our series about the search for multiple populations in Magellanic Cloud star clusters using the Hubble Space Telescope. Here we report the detection of multiple stellar populations in the colour-magnitude…

We present an analysis of the spatial distribution of various stellar populations within the Large Magellanic Cloud. We combine mid-infrared selected young stellar objects, optically selected samples with mean ages between ~9 and ~1000 Myr,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-24 Nate Bastian , Mark Gieles , Barbara Ercolano , Rob Gutermuth

We discuss the first results from ongoing studies of the resolved stellar populations in the outskirts of our nearest large neighbour, M31. Deep HST/WFPC2 archival observations are used to construct colour-magnitude-diagrams which reach…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 Annette Ferguson

The dust reservoir in the interstellar medium of a galaxy is constantly being replenished by dust formed in the stellar winds of evolved stars. Due to their vicinity, nearby irregular dwarf galaxies the Magellanic Clouds provide an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-12 F. Kemper

One of the most unexpected results in the field of stellar populations of the last few years, is the discovery that some Magellanic-Cloud globular clusters younger than ~400 Myr, exhibit bimodal main sequences (MSs) in their color-magnitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-11 A. P. Milone , A. F. Marino , F. D'Antona , L. R. Bedin , G. Piotto , H. Jerjen , J. Anderson , A. Dotter , M. Di Criscienzo , E. P. Lagioia

We present the first SkyMapper stellar population analysis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (hereafter LMC),including the identification of 3578 candidate Carbon Stars through their extremely red $g-r$ colours. Coupled with Gaia astrometry, we…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Zhen Wan , Magda Guglielmo , Geraint F. Lewis , Dougal Mackey , Rodrigo A. Ibata