Molecular clouds in nearby galaxies

Y Fukui, A Kawamura - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2010 - annualreviews.org
We present a review of spatially resolved giant molecular clouds (GMCs) in nearby galaxies,
aiming at providing a template of GMC properties, which may be extrapolated to distant …

Unbound young stellar systems: star formation on the loose

DA Gouliermis - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Unbound young stellar systems, the loose ensembles of physically related young bright
stars, trace the typical regions of recent star formation in galaxies. Their morphologies vary …

Surface brightness profiles and structural parameters for 53 rich stellar clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

AD Mackey⋆, GF Gilmore - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
We have compiled a pseudo-snapshot data set of two-colour observations from the Hubble
Space Telescope archive for a sample of 53 rich LMC clusters with ages of 106–1010 yr. We …

The origin of the magellanic stream and its leading arm

DL Nidever, SR Majewski… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We explore the Magellanic Stream (MS) using a Gaussian decomposition of the
H i velocity profiles in the Leiden-Argentine-Bonn (LAB) all-sky H i survey. This …

The IRSF Magellanic Clouds point source catalog

D Kato, C Nagashima, T Nagayama… - Publications of the …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We present a near-infrared () photometric catalog, including 14811185 point sources for a
40 deg area of the Large Magellanic Cloud, 2769682 sources for an 11 deg area of the …

The optical depth of H ii regions in the Magellanic Clouds

EW Pellegrini, MS Oey, PF Winkler… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
We exploit ionization-parameter mapping (IPM) as a powerful tool to measure the optical
depth of star-forming H ii regions. Our simulations using the photoionization code Cloudy …

A general catalogue of extended objects in the Magellanic System

E Bica, C Bonatto, CM Dutra… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We update the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), Bridge and Large Magellanic Cloud
(LMC) catalogues of extended objects that were constructed by members of our group from …

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey-XXIX. Massive star formation in the local 30 Doradus starburst

FRN Schneider, OH Ramírez-Agudelo… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The 30 Doradus (30 Dor) nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the brightest HII
region in the Local Group and a prototype starburst similar to those found in high redshift …

A Multi-band Catalog of 10978 Star Clusters, Associations, and Candidates in the Milky Way

E Bica, DB Pavani, CJ Bonatto… - The Astronomical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of Galactic star clusters, associations and candidates with 10978
entries. This multi-band catalog was constructed over 20 years, starting with visual …

Ca II triplet spectroscopy of Large Magellanic Cloud red giants. I. Abundances and velocities for a sample of populous clusters

AJ Grocholski, AA Cole, A Sarajedini… - The Astronomical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Using the FORS2 instrument on the Very Large Telescope, we have obtained near-infrared
spectra for more than 200 stars in 28 populous LMC clusters. This cluster sample spans a …