Astrophysical: Large Magellanic Cloud

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    Evidence for Evolved Stellar Binary Mergers in Observed B-type Blue Supergiants

    Blue supergiants are the brightest stars in their host galaxies, and yet their evolutionary status has been a long-standing problem in stellar astrophysics. In...

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    Exploring the Very Extended Low-surface-brightness Stellar Populations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with SMASH

    We present the detection of very extended stellar populations around the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) out to R ∼ 21°, or ∼18.5 kpc at the LMC distance of 50 kpc...

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    SMASH: Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History

    The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are unique local laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of small galaxies in exquisite detail. The Survey...

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    Stars shrouded in iron dust

    The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has participated in a study which has discovered a group of stars very poor in metals and shrouded in a high...

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    Testing Intermediate-Age Stellar Evolution Models with VLT Photometry of Large Magellanic Cloud Clusters. I. The Data

    This is the first of a series of three papers devoted to the calibration of a few parameters of crucial importance in the modeling of the evolution of...

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    Testing Intermediate-Age Stellar Evolution Models with VLT Photometry of Large Magellanic Cloud Clusters. II. Analysis with the Yale Models

    Using Yale stellar evolution models, we present an analysis of the color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of three intermediate-age LMC clusters, namely, NGC 2173, SL...

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    Testing Intermediate-Age Stellar Evolution Models with VLT Photometry of Large Magellanic Cloud Clusters. III. Padova Results

    The color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of three intermediate-age Large Megallanic Cloud clusters, NGC 2173, SL 556, and NGC 2155, are analyzed to determine their...

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    The Second Data Release of the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH)

    The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and close enough to allow for a detailed exploration of...