- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR3-dsa
- Title:
- VMC DR3 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Short Name:
- VMC DR3
- Date:
- 04 Dec 2019 13:42:19
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
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- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR2-dsa
- Title:
- VMC DR2 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Short Name:
- VMC DR2
- Date:
- 04 Dec 2019 13:42:10
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR1-dsa
- Title:
- VMC DR1 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Short Name:
- VMC DR1
- Date:
- 04 Dec 2019 13:41:53
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR3-dsa/ceaApplication
- Title:
- VMC DR3 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Date:
- 06 May 2015 16:22:28
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR2-dsa/ceaApplication
- Title:
- VMC DR2 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Date:
- 05 Mar 2014 15:07:59
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR1-dsa/ceaApplication
- Title:
- VMC DR1 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Date:
- 17 Jul 2012 14:15:55
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://wfau.roe.ac.uk/vmcDR4-dsa/ceaApplication
- Title:
- VMC DR4 - VISTA Magellanic System survey
- Date:
- 10 Nov 2017 17:33:38
- Publisher:
- WFAU, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
- Description:
- The VMC survey aims to obtain YJKs band photometry across the system down to Ks=20.3 at S/N=10. This sensitivity corresponds to the bottom of the red giant branch field stellar population and allows us to determine the global spatially resolved star formation history with unprecedented quality and to construct a three-dimensional map of the system. A wide-area encompassing the D25 as well as major features delineated by the distribution of stars and HI gas, will both trace the structure of the galaxies and signatures of past and present interactions. Contemporary optical and kinematic observations of comparable sensitivity will provide the community with a superior database for future studies of the system and will give us an excellent insight as to what has happened elsewhere in the Universe.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/554/A33
- Title:
- VMC Survey. VII. 30 Doradus reddening map
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/554/A33
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- In this paper we present a detailed reddening map of the central 30 Doradus region of the Large Magellanic Cloud; for both community use and as a test of the methods used for future use on a wider area. The reddening, a measurement of dust extinction, acts as a tracer of the interstellar medium (ISM). Near-infrared (NIR) photometry of the red clump stars is used to measure reddening as their fixed luminosity and intermediate age make extinction the dominant cause of colour and magnitude variance. The star formation history derived previously from these data is used to produce an intrinsic colour to act as a zero point in converting colour to reddening values E(J-Ks) which are subsequently converted to visual extinction A_V_. Presented is a dust map for the 30 Doradus field in both A_V_ and E(J-Ks). This map samples a region of 1{deg}x1.5{deg}, containing ~1.5x10^5^ red clump stars which probe reddening up to A_V_~6mag. We compare our map with maps from the literature, including optical extinction maps and radio, mid- and far-infrared maps of atomic hydrogen and dust emission. Through estimation of column density we locate molecular clouds.
23619. VMC survey. XIV. SFR in SMC
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/639
- Title:
- VMC survey. XIV. SFR in SMC
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/449/639
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyse deep images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds in the YJKs filters, covering 14deg^2^ (10 tiles), split into 120 subregions, and comprising the main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We apply a colour-magnitude diagram reconstruction method that returns their best-fitting star formation rate SFR(t), age-metallicity relation (AMR), distance and mean reddening, together with 68 percent confidence intervals. The distance data can be approximated by a plane tilted in the East-West direction with a mean inclination of 39{deg}, although deviations of up to +/-3kpc suggest a distorted and warped disc. After assigning to every observed star a probability of belonging to a given age-metallicity interval, we build high-resolution population maps. These dramatically reveal the flocculent nature of the young star-forming regions and the nearly smooth features traced by older stellar generations. They document the formation of the SMC Wing at ages <0.2Gyr and the peak of star formation in the SMC Bar at ~40Myr. We clearly detect periods of enhanced star formation at 1.5 and 5Gyr. The former is possibly related to a new feature found in the AMR, which suggests ingestion of metal-poor gas at ages slightly larger than 1Gyr. The latter constitutes a major period of stellar mass formation. We confirm that the SFR(t) was moderately low at even older ages.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/508/245
- Title:
- VMC survey XLIII. LMC star formation history
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/508/245
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021 08:21:00
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We derive the spatially resolved star formation history (SFH) for a 96deg^2^ area across the main body of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using the near- infrared photometry from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC). The data and analyses are characterized by a great degree of homogeneity and a low sensitivity to the interstellar extinction. 756 subregions of size 0.125deg^2^ - corresponding to projected sizes of about 296x322pc^2^ in the LMC - are analysed. The resulting SFH maps, with typical resolution of 0.2-0.3dex in logarithm of age, reveal main features in the LMC disc at different ages: the patchy star formation at recent ages, the concentration of star formation on three spiral arms and on the Bar up to ages of ~1.6Gyr, and the wider and smoother distribution of older populations. The period of most intense star formation occurred roughly between 4 and 0.5Gyr ago, at rates of ~0.3M_{sun}_/yr. We compare young and old star formation rates with the observed numbers of RR Lyrae and Cepheids. We also derive a mean extinction and mean distance for every subregion, and the plane that best describes the spatial distribution of the mean distances. Our results cover an area about 50 per cent larger than the classical SFH maps derived from optical data. Main differences with respect to those maps are lower star formation rates at young ages, and a main peak of star formation being identified at ages slightly younger than 1Gyr.
