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The Magellanic Clouds offer a unique variety of star forming regions seen as bright nebulae of ionized gas, related to bright young stellar associations. Nowadays, observations with the high resolving efficiency of the Hubble Space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dimitrios A. Gouliermis

We present our analysis of archival Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) observations in F450W (~B) and F555W (~V) of the intermediate- age populous star clusters NGC 121, NGC 339, NGC 361, NGC 416, and Kron 3 in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Kenneth J. Mighell , Ata Sarajedini , Rica S. French

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

In this contribution I will present the current status of our project of stellar population analyses and spatial information of both Magellanic Clouds (MCs). The Magellanic Clouds - especially the LMC with its large size and small depth…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jochen M. Braun

I present the latest results from our group about the multiple stellar populations in the old Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) and in the young systems both in the Magellanic Clouds and in the Milky Way. For the ancient GCs in our Galaxy I…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 Anna F. Marino

We report the serendipitous discovery of a peculiar main sequence in archived Hubble Space Telescope WFPC2 observations of the young star cluster NGC 2011 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The bright part of this main sequence exhibits a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. A. Gouliermis , S. Lianou , M. Kontizas , E. Kontizas , A. Dapergolas

We exploit the astro-photometric dataset of the multi-epoch infrared parallel field of a $\textit{Hubble Space Telescope}$ Large Programme aimed at studying the faintest stars of the globular cluster NGC$\,$6752 to determine the luminosity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 M. Scalco , R. Gerasimov , L. R. Bedin , E. Vesperini , D. Nardiello , M. Salaris , A. Burgasser , J. Anderson , M. Libralato , A. Bellini , P. Rosati

In this review we address the progress that has been made toward the understanding the population of Magellanic Cloud planetary nebulae since the last Magellanic Cloud Symposium. Planetary nebulae in the Clouds are not only important as key…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Letizia Stanghellini

We have carried out Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 F160BW, F555W and F656N imaging of four young populous clusters: NGC 330 in the Small Magellanic Cloud and NGC 1818, NGC 2004 and NGC 2100 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We report…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Stefan C. Keller , M. S. Bessell , G. S. Da Costa

An increasing number of photometric observations of multiple stellar populations in Galactic globular clusters is seriously challenging the paradigm of GCs hosting single, simple stellar populations. These multiple populations manifest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-22 Giampaolo Piotto

We examine four ancient Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) globular clusters (GCs) for evidence of multiple stellar populations using the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope Programme GO-14164. NGC…

We present a multiple population search in two old Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Globular Clusters, Hodge 11 and NGC 2210. This work uses data from the Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide Field Camera 3 on the Hubble Space Telescope from…

VISTA observed the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), as part of the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), for six years (2010-2016). The acquired multi-epoch YJKs images have allowed us to probe the stellar populations to an…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Maria-Rosa L. Cioni , Florian Niederhofer , Stefano Rubele , Ning-Chen Sun

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

More than 50 years have elapsed since the first studies of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds. The wealth of data accumulated since then has not only revealed a large cluster system, but also a diversified one, filling loci in the age,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 B. X. Santiago

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

As a part of an ongoing effort to characterise the young stellar populations in the Large Magellanic Cloud, we present HST-WFPC2 broad and narrow band imaging of two fields with recent star formation activity in the Tarantula region. A…

An increasing number of both photometric and spectroscopic observations over the last years have shown the existence of distinct sub-populations in many Galactic globular clusters and shattered the paradigm of globulars hosting single,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Antonino P. Milone , Giampaolo Piotto , Luigi R. Bedin , Andrea Bellini , Anna F. Marino , Yazan Momany

We report on the serendipitous discovery of ~ 500 low-mass candidate PMS stars in the vicinity of the stellar association LH 52 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We present evidence that the red faint sequence of these stars seen in the CMD of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Gouliermis , W. Brandner , Th. Henning

A comparative analysis of Washington color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) for 14 star clusters and respective surrounding fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) outer disk is presented. Each CCD frame including field and respective cluster…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. F. C. Santos , A. E. Piatti , J. J. Claria , E. Bica , D. Geisler , H. Dottori