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Hubble Space Telescope survey of Magellanic Cloud star clusters: photometry and astrometry of 113 clusters and early results

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Milone, Antonio P.
Cordoni, Giacomo
Marino, A. F.
D’Antona, F.
Bellini, Andrea
Di Criscienzo, Marcella
Dondoglio, Emanuele
Lagioia, Edoardo Prospero
Langer, Norbert
Legnardi, Maria Vittoria
Libralato, Mattia
Baumgardt, Holger
Bettinelli, M.
Cavecchi, YuriMés informacióMés informació
Document typeArticle
Defense date2023-04-01
PublisherEDP Sciences
Rights accessOpen Access
Attribution 4.0 International
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In the past few years, we have undertaken an extensive investigation of star clusters and their stellar populations in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) based on archival images collected with the Hubble Space Telescope. We present photometry and astrometry of stars in 101 fields observed with the Wide Field Channel of the Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Ultraviolet and Visual Channel and the Near-Infrared Channel of Wide Field Camera 3. These fields comprise 113 star clusters. We provide differential-reddening maps for those clusters with significant reddening variations across the field of view. We illustrate various scientific outcomes that arise from the early inspection of the photometric catalogs. In particular, we provide new insights into the extended main-sequence turnoff (eMSTO) phenomenon: (i) We detected eMSTOs in two clusters, KMHK 361 and NGC 265, which had no previous evidence of multiple populations. This finding corroborates the conclusion that the eMSTO is a widespread phenomenon among clusters younger than ~2 Gyr. (ii) The homogeneous color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of 19 LMC clusters reveal that the distribution of stars along the eMSTO depends on cluster age. (iii) We discovered a new feature along the eMSTO of NGC 1783, which consists of a distinct group of stars on the red side of the eMSTO in CMDs composed of UV filters. Furthermore, we derived the proper motions of stars in the fields of view of clusters with multi-epoch images. Proper motions allowed us to separate the bulk of bright field stars from cluster members and investigate the internal kinematics of stellar populations in various LMC and SMC fields. As an example, we analyze the field around NGC 346 to disentangle the motions of its stellar populations, including NGC 364 and BS 90, young and pre-main-sequence stars in the star-forming region associated with NGC 346, and young and old field stellar populations of the SMC. Based on these results and the fields around five additional clusters, we find that young SMC stars exhibit elongated proper-motion distributions that point toward the LMC, thus providing new evidence for a kinematic connection between the LMC and SMC.
CitationMilone, A. [et al.]. Hubble Space Telescope survey of Magellanic Cloud star clusters: photometry and astrometry of 113 clusters and early results. "Astronomy & astrophysics", 1 Abril 2023, vol. 672, núm. article A161, p. 1-34. 
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/2117/386942
DOI10.1051/0004-6361/202244798
ISSN1432-0746
Publisher versionhttps://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/04/aa44798-22/aa44798-22.html
Other identifiershttps://arxiv.org/abs/2212.07978
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