- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/83/87
- Title:
- LMC & SMC PNe optical spectroscopy. III
- Short Name:
- J/ApJS/83/87
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present optical spectroscopy in the range 3300-7400A for a total of 52 planetary nebulae in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 18 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Together with the object from the first (1991ApJS...75..407M) and second (1991ApJS...76.1085M) papers, we now have accurate emission-line intensities for a total of 147 nebulae in the Magellanic Clouds. This sample contains a large selection of objects of low luminosity, with measurements of line intensities down to ~10% of H{beta}. Brighter objects have line intensities measured down to ~2% of H{beta}. Agreement with other authors is generally very good, especially for lines greater than approximately 10% of H{beta}. Reddening estimates from Balmer line ratios have been determined: unreddened and reddened line intensities are tabulated.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/116/723
- Title:
- LMC star clusters ages and metallicity
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/116/723
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present Washington system CT_1_ color-magnitude diagrams of 13 star clusters and their surrounding fields that lie in the outer parts of the LMC disk (r>4{deg}), as well as a comparison inner cluster. The total area covered is large (2/3deg^2^), allowing us to study the clusters and their fields individually and in the context of the entire Galaxy. Ages are determined by means of the magnitude difference {delta}T_1_ between the giant branch clump and the turnoff, while metallicities are derived from the location of the giant and subgiant branches as compared with fiducial star clusters. This yields a unique data set in which ages and metallicities for both a significant sample of clusters and their fields are determined homogeneously. We find that in most cases the stellar population of each star cluster is quite similar to that of the field where it is embedded, sharing its mean age and metallicity. The old population (t>=10Gyr) is detected in most fields as a small concentration of stars on the horizontal branch blueward and faintward of the prominent clump.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/586/A41
- Title:
- LMC star clusters catalog
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/586/A41
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The main goal of this study is to compile a catalogue of the fundamental parameters of a complete sample of 277 star clusters (SCs) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) observed in the Washington photometric system. A set of 82 clusters was recently studied by our team. All the clusters' parameters such as radii, deprojected distances, reddenings, ages, and metallicities were obtained by applying essentially the same procedures, which are briefly described here. We used empirical cumulative distribution functions to examine age, metallicity and deprojected distance distributions for different cluster subsamples of the catalogue. Our new sample of 82 additional clusters represents about a 40% increase in the total number of LMC SCs observed to date in the Washington photometric system. In particular, we report here the fundamental parameters obtained for the first time for 42 of these clusters. We found that single LMC SCs are typically older than multiple SCs. Both single and multiple SCs exhibit asymmetrical distributions in log (age). We compared cluster ages derived through isochrone fittings obtained using different models of the Padova group. Although ages obtained using recent isochrones are consistent in general terms, we found that there is some disagreement in the obtained values and their uncertainties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/AJ/142/48
- Title:
- LMC star clusters structural parameters
- Short Name:
- J/AJ/142/48
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present and analyze the radial luminosity profiles of a sample of 1066 stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). By design, this study closely follows the compilation by Hill & Zaritsky (2006, Cat. J/AJ/131/414 of the structural parameters of stellar clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). Both King and Elson-Fall-Freeman model profiles are fit to V-band surface brightness profiles measured from the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey images. We tabulate the concentration, central surface brightness, tidal radii, 90% enclosed luminosity radii (r_90_), and local background luminosity density. Over two-thirds of the clusters in the sample are adequately fit by one or both of these models. One notable and systematic exception, as in the SMC, is those clusters that lack a central brightness concentration, the "ring" clusters. While the bulk properties of the clusters are similar between the LMC and SMC populations, we find that the LMC lacks clusters that are as large, either in terms of core radii or r90, as the largest in the SMC, perhaps a signature of larger tidal stresses in the LMC.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/405/111
- Title:
- LMC Survey of Young Stellar Systems
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/405/111
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The method developed by Gouliermis et al. (2000AJ....119.1737G), for the detection and classification of stellar systems in the LMC, was used for the identification of stellar associations and open clusters in the central area of the LMC. This method was applied on the stellar catalog produced from a scanned 1.2m UK Schmidt Telescope Plate in U with a field of view almost 6.5degx6.5deg, centered on the Bar of this galaxy. The survey of the identified systems is presented here followed by the results of the investigation on their spatial distribution and their structural parameters, as were estimated according to our proposed methodology. The detected open clusters and stellar associations show to form large filamentary structures, which are often connected with the loci of HI shells. The derived mean size of the stellar associations in this survey was found to agree with the average size found previously by other authors, for stellar associations in different galaxies. This common size of about 80pc might represent a universal scale for the star formation process, whereas the parameter correlations of the detected loose systems support the distinction between open clusters and stellar associations.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/446/3034
- Title:
- LMC Type II Cepheids J and Ks light curves
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/446/3034
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) survey of the Magellanic Clouds System (VMC) is collecting deep Ks-band time-series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted in the system formed by the two Magellanic Clouds and the Bridge connecting them. In this paper, we have analysed a sample of 130 Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) Type II Cepheids (T2CEPs) found in tiles with complete or near-complete VMC observations for which identification and optical magnitudes were obtained from the OGLE III (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment) survey. We present J and Ks light curves for all 130 pulsators, including 41 BL Her, 62 W Vir (12 pW Vir) and 27 RV Tau variables. We complement our near-infrared photometry with the V magnitudes from the OGLE III survey, allowing us to build a variety of period-luminosity (PL), period-luminosity-colour (PLC) and period-Wesenheit (PW) relationships, including any combination of the V, J, Ks filters and valid for BL Her and W Vir classes. These relationships were calibrated in terms of the LMC distance modulus, while an independent absolute calibration of the PL(Ks) and the PW(Ks, V) was derived on the basis of distances obtained from Hubble Space Telescope parallaxes and Baade-Wesselink technique. When applied to the LMC and to the Galactic globular clusters hosting T2CEPs, these relations seem to show that (1) the two Population II standard candles RR Lyrae and T2CEPs give results in excellent agreement with each other; (2) there is a discrepancy of ~0.1mag between Population II standard candles and classical Cepheids when the distances are gauged in a similar way for all the quoted pulsators. However, given the uncertainties, this discrepancy is within the formal 1{sigma} uncertainties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/397/933
- Title:
- LMC type II Cepheids JHKs magnitudes
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/397/933
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- JHKs magnitudes corrected to mean intensity are estimated for Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) type II Cepheids in the OGLE-III survey the third phase of the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). Period-luminosity (PL) relations are derived in JHKs as well as in a reddening-free VI parameter. Within the uncertainties, the BL Her stars (P<4d) and the W Vir stars (P=4 to 20d) are colinear in these PL relations. The slopes of the infrared relations agree with those found previously for type II Cepheids in globular clusters within the uncertainties.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/344/521
- Title:
- LMC variable X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/344/521
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ROSAT PSPC (Cat. <IX/11>) performed more than 200 pointed observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) between 1990 and 1994. Most of the LMC was covered more than once and a large fraction at least ten times, making the PSPC observations an in valuable archive to study long-term time variability in the LMC. We performed a systematic search for variable X-ray sources in the LMC and found 27 sources which showed flux variations by factors between 3 and more than 1000. A comparison of the temporal and spectral characteristics of 15 X-ray sources which are not yet identified optically with those of the previously known sources in our sample allows to draw first conclusions about their nature. Up to six of the unidentified sources are promising candidates for high mass X-ray binaries in the LMC. Six sources are probably foreground stars, two soft objects might be supersoft sources and one source could be a black hole candidate. Most of the X-ray binary candidates are found in the area of the LMC 4 supergiant shell leading to a significant concentration of such systems in that region, consistent with the idea of being born in the stellar formation event which created the shell.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/473/105
- Title:
- LMC Washington CMT1 photometry of star clusters
- Short Name:
- J/MNRAS/473/105
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analysed Washington CMT1 photometry of star clusters located along the minor axis of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), from the LMC optical centre up to ~39{deg} outwards to the North-West. The data base was exploited in order to search for new star cluster candidates, to produce cluster CMDs cleaned from field star contamination and to derive age estimates for a statistically complete cluster sample. We confirmed that 146 star cluster candidates are genuine physical systems, and concluded that an overall ~30 per cent of catalogued clusters in the surveyed regions are unlikely to be true physical systems. We did not find any new cluster candidates in the outskirts of the LMC (deprojected distance >~8{deg}). The derived ages of the studied clusters are in the range 7.2<log(t[yr^-1^])<=9.4, with the sole exception of the globular cluster NGC 1786 (log(t[yr^-1^])=10.10). We also calculated the cluster frequency for each region, from which we confirmed previously proposed outside-in formation scenarios. In addition, we found that the outer LMC fields show a sudden episode of cluster formation (log(t[yr^-1^])~7.8-7.9) which continued until log(t[yr^-1^])~7.3 only in the outermost LMC region. We link these features to the first pericentre passage of the LMC to the Milky Way (MW), which could have triggered cluster formation due to ram pressure interaction between the LMC and MW halo.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/597/A12
- Title:
- LMC X-3 formation history
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/597/A12
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We have endeavoured to understand the formation and evolution of the black hole (BH) X-ray binary LMC X-3. We estimated the properties of the system at four evolutionary stages: 1) at the zero-age main-sequence (ZAMS), 2) immediately before the supernova (SN) explosion of the primary, 3) immediately after the SN, and 4) at the moment when Roche-lobe overflow began. We used a hybrid approach that combined detailed calculations of the stellar structure and binary evolution with approximate population synthesis models. This allowed us to estimate potential natal and the evolution of the BH spin. We incorporated as model constraints the most up-to-date observational information throughout, which include the binary orbital properties, the companion star mass, effective temperature, surface gravity and radius, and the BH mass and spin. We find at 5% and 95% confidence, respectively, that LMC X-3 began as a ZAMS system with the mass of the primary star in the range M_1,ZAMS_=22-31M_{sun}_ and a secondary star of M_2,ZAMS_=5.0-8.3M_{sun}_, in a wide (P_ZAMS_>~2.000days) and eccentric (e_ZAMS_>~0.18) orbit. Immediately before the SN, the primary had a mass of M_1,preSN_=11.1-18.0M_{sun}_, but the secondary star was largely unaffected. The orbital period decreased to $0.6-1.7days and is still eccentric 0>=e_preSN_>=0.44. We find that a symmetric SN explosion with no or small natal kicks (a few tens of km/s) imparted on the BH cannot be formally excluded, but large natal kicks in excess of >~120km/s increase the estimated formation rate by an order of magnitude. Following the SN, the system has a BH M_BH,postSN_=6.4-8.2M_{sun} and is set on an eccentric orbit. At the onset of the Roche-lobe overflow, the orbit is circular and has a period of P_RLO_=0.8-1.4days.
