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The VMC survey IX. Pilot study of the proper motion of stellar populations in the LMC from 2MASS and VISTA data (2014)
Journal Article
Cioni, M., Girardi, L., Moretti, M., Piffl, T., Ripepi, V., Rubele, S., …Van Loon, J. (2014). The VMC survey IX. Pilot study of the proper motion of stellar populations in the LMC from 2MASS and VISTA data. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 562, Article A32. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201322100

Context. Proper motion (PM) studies are fundamental ingredients in the understanding of the orbital history of galaxies. Current measurements do not yet provide a satisfactory answer to the possible scenarios for the formation and evolution of the Ma... Read More about The VMC survey IX. Pilot study of the proper motion of stellar populations in the LMC from 2MASS and VISTA data.

Molecular hydrogen emission in the interstellar medium of the Large Magellanic Cloud (2014)
Journal Article
Naslim, N., Kemper, F., Madden, S. C., Hony, S., Chu, Y., Galliano, F., …Reach, W. T. (2014). Molecular hydrogen emission in the interstellar medium of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 446(3), 2490 - 2504. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stu2276

We present the detection and analysis of molecular hydrogen emission towards ten interstellar regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud. We examined low-resolution infrared spectral maps of 12 regions obtained with the Spitzer infrared spectrograph (IRS)... Read More about Molecular hydrogen emission in the interstellar medium of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Mapping the Star Formation in Orion A/L1641 (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Pillitteri, I., Wolk, S. J., Megeath, S. T., Allen, L., Bally, J., Gagné, M., …Stauffer, J. (2014). Mapping the Star Formation in Orion A/L1641. In The Labyrinth of Star Formation (291-293). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03041-8_56

First phases of the process of star formation are characterized by excess in infrared and high X-ray emission. With Spitzer and XMM-Newton we have surveyed the Orion A part relative to the filamentary cloud Lynds 1641 (L1641). Furthermore, an extende... Read More about Mapping the Star Formation in Orion A/L1641.

The VMC Survey - VIII. First results for anomalous Cepheids (2013)
Journal Article
Ripepi, V., Marconi, M., Moretti, M., Clementini, G., Cioni, M., de Grijs, R., …Oliveira, J. (2014). The VMC Survey - VIII. First results for anomalous Cepheids. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 437(3), 2307 -2319. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stt2047

The VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic Clouds System (VMC, PI M.-R. L. Cioni) is collecting deep Ks-band time-series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted in the system formed by the two Magellanic Clouds and the Bridge con... Read More about The VMC Survey - VIII. First results for anomalous Cepheids.

SURVEYING THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION IN THE TIDALLY STRIPPED, LOW METALLICITY SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SAGE-SMC). III. YOUNG STELLAR OBJECTS (2013)
Journal Article
Sewiło, M., Carlson, L. R., Seale, J. P., Indebetouw, R., Meixner, M., Whitney, B. A., …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.

ALMA RESOLVES 30 DORADUS: SUB-PARSEC MOLECULAR CLOUD STRUCTURE NEAR THE CLOSEST SUPER STAR CLUSTER (2013)
Journal Article
Indebetouw, R., Brogan, C., Chen, C. R., Leroy, A., Johnson, K., Muller, E., …Vasyunina, T. (in press). ALMA RESOLVES 30 DORADUS: SUB-PARSEC MOLECULAR CLOUD STRUCTURE NEAR THE CLOSEST SUPER STAR CLUSTER. Astrophysical Journal, 774(1), Article 73. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/774/1/73

We present Atacama Large (sub)Millimeter Array observations of 30 Doradus—the highest resolution view of molecular gas in an extragalactic star formation region to date (∼0.4 pc × 0.6 pc). The 30Dor-10 cloud north of R136 was mapped in 12CO 2–1, 13CO... Read More about ALMA RESOLVES 30 DORADUS: SUB-PARSEC MOLECULAR CLOUD STRUCTURE NEAR THE CLOSEST SUPER STAR CLUSTER.

The Herschel inventory of the agents of galaxy evolution in the Magellanic Clouds, a Herschel open time key program (2013)
Journal Article
Meixner, M., Panuzzo, P., Roman-Duval, J., Engelbracht, C., Babler, B., Seale, J., …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.

ERRATUM: “AN X-RAYS SURVEY OF THE YOUNG STELLAR POPULATION OF THE LYNDS 1641 AND IOTA ORIONIS REGIONS” (2013, ApJ, 768, 99) (2013)
Journal Article
Pillitteri, I., Wolk, S. J., Megeath, S. T., Allen, L., Bally, J., Gagné, M., …Stauffer, J. ERRATUM: “AN X-RAYS SURVEY OF THE YOUNG STELLAR POPULATION OF THE LYNDS 1641 AND IOTA ORIONIS REGIONS” (2013, ApJ, 768, 99). Astrophysical Journal, 773(1), 80. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637x/773/1/80

DUSTY OB STARS IN THE SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD. I. OPTICAL SPECTROSCOPY REVEALS PREDOMINANTLY MAIN-SEQUENCE OB STARS (2013)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
Adams, J. J., Simon, J. D., Bolatto, A. D., Sloan, G. C., Sandstrom, K. M., Schmiedeke, A., …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?.