Outputs (11)

The VMC Survey – X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure★ (2013)
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Moretti, M. I., Clementini, G., Muraveva, T., Ripepi, V., Marquette, J. B., Cioni, M.-R. L., Marconi, M., Girardi, L., Rubele, S., Tisserand, P., de Grijs, R., Groenewegen, M. A. T., Guandalini, R., Ivanov, V. D., & van Loon, J. T. (2013). The VMC Survey – X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(3), 2702-2719. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2081

The VISTA near-infrared Y, J, Ks survey of the Magellanic System (VMC) survey is obtaining multi-epoch photometry in the Ks band of the Magellanic System down to a limiting magnitude of Ks ∼ 19.3 for individual epoch data. The observations are spaced... Read More about The VMC Survey – X. Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries as probes of the Magellanic System's structure★.

SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS (2013)
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Sewiło, M., Carlson, L. R., Seale, J. P., Indebetouw, R., Meixner, M., Whitney, B. A., Robitaille, T. P., Oliveira, J. M., Gordon, K., Meade, M. R., Babler, B. L., Hora, J. L., Block, M., Misselt, K., van Loon, J. T., Chen, C.-H. R., Churchwell, E., & Shiao, B. (in press). SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS. Astrophysical Journal, 778(1), 15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/778/1/15

The Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy Program SAGE-SMC allows global studies of resolved stellar populations in the SMC in a different environment than our Galaxy. Using the SAGE-SMC IRAC (3.6–8.0 μm) and MIPS (24 and 70 μm) catalogs and images combined... Read More about SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS.

The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus (2013)
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Doran, E. I., Crowther, P. A., de Koter, A., Evans, C. J., McEvoy, C., Walborn, N. R., Bastian, N., Bestenlehner, J. M., Gräfener, G., Herrero, A., Köhler, K., Maíz Apellániz, J., Najarro, F., Puls, J., Sana, H., Schneider, F. R. N., Taylor, W. D., van Loon, J. T., & Vink, J. S. (2013). The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 558, Article A134. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321824

Context. The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey has an extensive view of the copious number of massive stars in the 30 Doradus (30 Dor) star forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud. These stars play a crucial role in our understanding of the stellar fe... Read More about The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey: XI. A census of the hot luminous stars and their feedback in 30 Doradus.

The Herschel inventory of the agents of galaxy evolution in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel open time key program (2013)
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Meixner, M., Panuzzo, P., Roman-Duval, J., Engelbracht, C., Babler, B., Seale, J., Hony, S., Montiel, E., Sauvage, M., Gordon, K., Misselt, K., Okumura, K., Chanial, P., Beck, T., Bernard, J.-P., Bolatto, A., Bot, C., Boyer, M., Carlson, L., Clayton, G., …Whitney, B. (2013). The Herschel inventory of the agents of galaxy evolution in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel open time key program. Astronomical Journal, 146(3), Article 62. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/146/3/62

We present an overview of the HERschel Inventory of The Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) in the Magellanic Clouds project, which is a Herschel Space Observatory open time key program. We mapped the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellan... Read More about The Herschel inventory of the agents of galaxy evolution in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel open time key program.

CARBON MONOXIDE IN THE COLD DEBRIS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A (2013)
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Kamenetzky, J., McCray, R., Indebetouw, R., Barlow, M. J., Matsuura, M., Baes, M., Blommaert, J. A. D. L., Bolatto, A., Decin, L., Dunne, L., Fransson, C., Glenn, J., Gomez, H. L., Groenewegen, M. A. T., Hopwood, R., Kirshner, R. P., Lakicevic, M., Marcaide, J., Marti-Vidal, I., Meixner, M., …Zanardo, G. (in press). CARBON MONOXIDE IN THE COLD DEBRIS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A. Astrophysical Journal Letters, 773(2), L34. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/773/2/l34

We report spectroscopic and imaging observations of rotational transitions of cold CO and SiO in the ejecta of SN1987A, the first such emission detected in a supernova remnant. In addition to line luminosities for the CO J = 1–0, 2–1, 6–5, and 7–6 tr... Read More about CARBON MONOXIDE IN THE COLD DEBRIS OF SUPERNOVA 1987A.

DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. I. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY REVEALS PREDOMINANTLY MAIN-SEQUENCE OB STARS (2013)
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Sheets, H. A., Bolatto, A. D., van Loon, J. T., Sandstrom, K., Simon, J. D., Oliveira, J. M., & Barbá, R. H. (in press). DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. I. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY REVEALS PREDOMINANTLY MAIN-SEQUENCE OB STARS. Astrophysical Journal, 771(2), Article 111. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/771/2/111

We present the results of optical spectroscopic follow-up of 125 candidate main sequence OB stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) that were originally identified in the S3MC infrared imaging survey as showing an excess of emission at 24 μm indica... Read More about DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. I. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY REVEALS PREDOMINANTLY MAIN-SEQUENCE OB STARS.

DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. II. EXTRAGALACTIC DISKS OR EXAMPLES OF THE PLEIADES PHENOMENON? (2013)
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Adams, J. J., Simon, J. D., Bolatto, A. D., Sloan, G. C., Sandstrom, K. M., Schmiedeke, A., van Loon, J. T., Oliveira, J. M., & Keller, L. D. (2013). DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. II. EXTRAGALACTIC DISKS OR EXAMPLES OF THE PLEIADES PHENOMENON?. Astrophysical Journal, 771(2), Article ARTN 112. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/771/2/112

We use mid-infrared Spitzer spectroscopy and far-infrared Herschel photometry for a sample of 20 main sequence O9–B2 stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) with strong 24 μm excesses to investigate the origin of the mid-IR emission. Either debris... Read More about DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. II. EXTRAGALACTIC DISKS OR EXAMPLES OF THE PLEIADES PHENOMENON?.

The VMC survey: VII. Reddening map of the 30 Doradus field and the structure of the cold interstellar medium (2013)
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Tatton, B. L., van Loon, J. T., Cioni, M.-R., Clementini, G., Emerson, J. P., Girardi, L., de Grijs, R., Groenewegen, M. A. T., Gullieuszik, M., Ivanov, V. D., Moretti, M. I., Ripepi, V., & Rubele, S. (2013). The VMC survey: VII. Reddening map of the 30 Doradus field and the structure of the cold interstellar medium. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 554, A33. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201321209

Context. The details of how galaxies have evolved over cosmological times are imprinted in their star formation history, chemical enrichment and morpho-kinematic structure. Parameters behind these, such as effective temperature and metallicity, can b... Read More about The VMC survey: VII. Reddening map of the 30 Doradus field and the structure of the cold interstellar medium.

The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project – III. Feedback from dusty stellar winds in the central square kiloparsec (2013)
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Javadi, A., van Loon, J. T., Khosroshahi, H., & Mirtorabi, M. T. (2013). The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project – III. Feedback from dusty stellar winds in the central square kiloparsec. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 432(4), 2824-2836. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt640

We have conducted a near-infrared monitoring campaign at the UK Infrared Telescope, of the Local Group spiral galaxy M33 (Triangulum). The main aim was to identify stars in the very final stage of their evolution, and for which the luminosity is more... Read More about The UK Infrared Telescope M33 monitoring project – III. Feedback from dusty stellar winds in the central square kiloparsec.

The thermal dust emission in N158–N159–N160 (LMC) star-forming complex mapped by Spitzer, Herschel and LABOCA (2013)
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Galametz, M., Hony, S., Galliano, F., Madden, S. C., Albrecht, M., Bot, C., Cormier, D., Engelbracht, C., Fukui, Y., Israel, F. P., Kawamura, A., Lebouteiller, V., Li, A., Meixner, M., Misselt, K., Montiel, E., Okumura, K., Panuzzo, P., Roman-Duval, J., Rubio, M., …van Loon, J. T. (2013). The thermal dust emission in N158–N159–N160 (LMC) star-forming complex mapped by Spitzer, Herschel and LABOCA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 431(2), 1596-1617. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt280

Low-metallicity galaxies exhibit different properties of the interstellar medium (ISM) compared to nearby spiral galaxies. Obtaining a resolved inventory of the various gas and dust components of massive star-forming regions and diffuse ISM is necess... Read More about The thermal dust emission in N158–N159–N160 (LMC) star-forming complex mapped by Spitzer, Herschel and LABOCA.