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1. Pee** into recent star-formation history of Magellanic Clouds

   We study the distribution of fundamental-mode Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds as a function of their positions and ages using the data from the...

   Y. C. Joshi, A. Panchal in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy

   Article 13 May 2023
   

2. The Master Catalogue of Stars Towards the Magellanic Clouds

   The Master Catalogue of stars towards the Magellanic Clouds (MC2) is a multi-wavelength reference catalogue. We performed a systematic cross-matching...

   Nausicaa Delmotte, Cécile Loup, ... Francesco Pierfederici in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

   Conference paper
   

3. Sub-per-cent determination of the brightness at the tip of the red giant branch in the Magellanic Clouds

   The value of the Hubble constant as constrained by type Ia supernovae is directly tied to the zero point of the extragalactic distance scale, which...

   Taylor J. Hoyt in Nature Astronomy

   Article 16 March 2023
   

4. Moderately High Resolution Spectroscopy of Red Supergiants in the Small Magellanic Clouds: Abundance Effects

   This is a preliminary report on a project to improve the metallicity coverage of the spectral library of Ivanov et al. (2004). We have obtained...

   Valentin D. Ivanov, Almudena Alonso-Herrero, ... Danielle Alloin in High Resolution Infrared Spectroscopy in Astronomy

   Conference paper
   

5. The Old Population of the Magellanic Clouds

   The brightest old stars in the LMC are as faint as V=16 (V=16.5 in the SMC). The VLT with UVES or GIRAFFE will provide, for the first time, high...

   Monique Spite, Vanessa Hill in From Extrasolar Planets to Cosmology: The VLT Opening Symposium

   Conference paper
   

6. Enrichment by extragalactic first stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud

   The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is the Milky Way’s most massive satellite galaxy, which only recently (~2 billion years ago) fell into our Galaxy....

   Anirudh Chiti, Mohammad Mardini, ... Joshua D. Simon in Nature Astronomy

   Article 20 March 2024
   

7. Gas Kinematics in the Magellanic-Type Galaxy NGC 7292

   Abstract

   The paper presents results of studying the kinematics of the ionized gas in the galaxy of the Large Magellanic Cloud type NGC 7292 obtained...

   A. S. Gusev, A. V. Moiseev, S. G. Zheltoukhov in Astrophysical Bulletin

   Article 01 September 2023
   

8. Ionized carbon as a tracer of the assembly of interstellar clouds

   Molecular hydrogen clouds are a key component of the interstellar medium because they are the birthplaces for stars. They are embedded in atomic gas...

   Nicola Schneider, Lars Bonne, ... Alexander G.G.M. Tielens in Nature Astronomy

   Article Open access 16 February 2023
   

9. Diverse metallicities of Fermi bubble clouds indicate dual origins in the disk and halo

   The Galactic Centre is surrounded by two giant plasma lobes known as the Fermi bubbles, extending ~10 kpc both above and below the Galactic plane....

   Trisha Ashley, Andrew J. Fox, ... Tanveer Karim in Nature Astronomy

   Article 18 July 2022
   

10. A relic from a past merger event in the Large Magellanic Cloud

    According to the standard cosmological scenario, the large galaxies that we observe today have reached their current mass via mergers with smaller...

    A. Mucciarelli, D. Massari, ... L. Origlia in Nature Astronomy

    Article 18 October 2021
    

11. Eclipsing Binary Stars as Precise and Accurate Distance Indicators

    Eclipsing binary systems have a very large potential to deliver precise and accurate distances not only within the Milky Way, but also to nearby...

    Grzegorz Pietrzyński, Dariusz Graczyk in The Hubble Constant Tension

    Chapter 2024
    

12. High-Mass X-ray Binaries

    Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...

    Francesca Fornasini, Vallia Antoniou, Guillaume Dubus in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics

    Reference work entry 2024
    

13. High-Mass X-ray Binaries

    Binary systems in which a neutron star or black hole accretes material from a high-mass star are known as high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs). This...

    Francesca Fornasini, Vallia Antoniou, Guillaume Dubus in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics

    Living reference work entry 2024
    

14. On Estimating the Masses of Star Clusters Embedded in Clouds of Interstellar Gas and Dust

    Abstract

    In the article, a method is developed for estimating the dynamic masses of the stellar and gas components of cluster-cloud systems under...

    V. M. Danilov in Astrophysical Bulletin

    Article 01 March 2024
    

15. The Young Massive Small Magellanic Cloud Cluster NGC 330 Observed with MUSE

    The high fraction of massive stars in interacting binary system implies that a large number of interaction products should exist. One possible way of...

    Julia Bodensteiner in Observational Imprints of Binary Evolution on B- and Be-star Populations

    Chapter 2022
    

16. TP-AGB Stars to Date High-Redshift Galaxies with the Spitzer Space Telescope

    We present new stellar population models that include the contribution of the Thermally Pulsing Asymptotic Giant Branch (TP-AGB) phase also in the...

    Claudia Maraston in Multiwavelength Map** of Galaxy Formation and Evolution

    Conference paper
    

17. Massive Variability Search and Monitoring by OGLE and ASAS

    OGLE and ASAS are long term observing projects operated by the Warsaw University Observatory at the Las Campanas site in Chile. OGLE is currently...

    Bohdan Paczyński in Toward an International Virtual Observatory

    Conference paper
    

18. Cepheids as distance indicators and stellar tracers

    We review the phenomenology of classical Cepheids (CCs), Anomalous Cepheids (ACs) and type II Cepheids (TIICs) in the Milky Way (MW) and in the...

    G. Bono, V. F. Braga, A. Pietrinferni in The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review

    Article Open access 29 April 2024
    

19. On Cepheid Distances in the \({H}_{0}\) Measurement

    Classical Cepheids were the first stellar standard candles and have played a crucial role for astronomical distance measurements ever since the...

    Richard I. Anderson in The Hubble Constant Tension

    Chapter 2024
    

20. Diffuse Hot Plasma in the Interstellar Medium and Galactic Outflows

    We summarize observations and our current understanding of the interstellar medium (ISM) in galaxies, which mainly consists of three phases: cold...

    Manami Sasaki, Gabriele Ponti, Jonathan Mackey in Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-ray Astrophysics

    Reference work entry 2024