We present a new photometry of the Small Magellanic Cloud star cluster NGC 458 in UBVI filters. We determine the reddening E(B-V)=0.04+/-0.02. By comparison with the isochrones by Bertelli et al. (1994, Cat. <J/A+AS/106/275>) we derive an age of ~140Myr. Three candidate blue straggler stars are proposed. The evolved "blue loop'' stars of NGC 458 have masses between 4 and 5M_{sun}_ and are hotter than model predictions.
We present UBV photometry of four fields within Shapley Constellation III and one field on the edge of the shell. Our fields cover roughly 20% of the region, mostly in the southern half. Determinations are made of ages of the fields, the star formation densities, and the initial mass function (IMF) slopes.
We examine the stellar population of an OB association, LH 47/48, which is associated with a superbubble H II region, DEM 152 in the N44 nebular complex of the Large Magellanic Cloud. With CCD photometry and spectroscopy of the massive stars, we find no evidence that an unusual stellar population gave rise to the shell morphology of the gas. The slope of the initial mass function, {Gamma}=1.3+/-0.2, is consistent with that of other OB associations in the LMC, and there is no significant difference in the initial mass function internal or external to the supershell. The inferred stellar ionizing flux is consistent with the observed nebular H alpha flux. We do find evidence for triggered star formation: the H-R diagram suggests an age of >10Myr for the population interior to the bubble with more recent, <5Myr, star formation on the exterior. Using the detailed data on the stellar population, we compare a numerical form of the Weaver et al. (1977ApJ...218..377W) evolutionary model for wind-driven bubbles with the observed shell kinematics. We find a substantial discrepancy: the observed shell radius is too small and/or expansion velocity too large to be explained with this version of the model. We discuss possible explanations for the inconsistency.
Photoelectric UBV observations were made in two associations in the Large Magellanic Cloud, in the magnitude range 10.6 to 16.2. The observations were made at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory with the 36-inch telescope in the nights of 1-5 December 1967. The positions were computed by B. Skiff (Lowell Obs.) in 2009.
Blue-violet spectrograms of individual components in four compact OB groups of the Large Magellanic Cloud, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS), are presented and discussed. Two of the massive multiple systems are in the 30 Doradus periphery, while the other two represent the core and the peripheral, triggered associations in the giant shell H II region Henize N11. Uncontaminated spectrograms of three Wolf-Rayet and two very early Of components have been obtained for the first time; they can be observed only as composites with their close companions from the ground. Many of the companions have also been observed separately with the HST FOS, and several are of special interest in their own right. These observations provide information on the initial masses and ages of the peculiar objects, and on the evolutionary relationships among different spectral categories within the presumably coeval systems.
UBV photometry of 955 galactic foreground stars in the direction to the Large Magellanic Cloud is presented. The stars have been chosen from foreground star catalogues and have been measured to complete a new data base containing entries of more than 5000 stars in the direction of the LMC. First and second order extinction coefficients at La Silla/Chile are given, which differ from the standard values because of the 1991 eruption of the volcano Mt. Pinatubo.
New UBV photometry for 878 luminous member stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and 13 stars of uncertain membership is presented. Including former observations now UBV data are available for altogether 2470 luminous LMC stars and 2106 foreground stars plus 65 stars of uncertain membership. The observations have been used already for several investigations dealing e.g. with interstellar reddening lines and intrinsic colours, the dust distribution and the calibration of charge-coupled device exposures.
Using ultraviolet photometry from the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UIT) combined with photometry and spectroscopy from three ground-based optical data sets we have analyzed the stellar content of OB associations and field areas in and around the regions N79, N81, N83, and N94 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. In particular, we compare data for the OB association Lucke-Hodge 2 (LH 2) to determine how strongly the initial mass function (IMF) may depend on different photometric reductions and calibrations.
UBV photometry of OB associations in LMC superbubbles
Short Name:
J/ApJS/104/71
Date:
21 Oct 2021
Publisher:
CDS
Description:
This work presents UBV photometry of the stellar populations associated with seven superbubble nebulae and five classical H II regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Although the nebular morphology of the superbubbles appears to be substantially evolved compared to the classical nebulae, the color-magnitude diagrams do not reveal any noticeable correlation between the resident stellar population and nebular morphology. The photometry presented here will be used in a forthcoming paper to examine further the stellar content and dynamics of these superbubbles.
This catalogue groups broad-band CCD photometry made in 8 regions of the Magellanic Clouds which were used for the study of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds. The photometry yielded 293693 BV entries with 136155 having additional U information, published or to be published in 4 different papers.
