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K-band integral field spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., Van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2017). K-band integral field spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 464(2), 1512 -1552. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw2386

We present K-band integral field spectroscopic observations towards 17 massive young stellar objects (YSOs) in the low-metallicity Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and two YSO candidates in the compact H?II regions N81 and N88 A (also in the SMC). These... Read More about K-band integral field spectroscopy and optical spectroscopy of massive young stellar objects in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2016)
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Piatti, A. E., Ivanov, V. D., Rubele, S., Marconi, M., Ripepi, V., Cioni, M. L., …Bekki, K. (2016). The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 460(1), 383 - 395. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw1000

We report the first search for new star clusters performed using the VISTA near-infrared YJKs Magellanic Clouds survey (VMC) data sets. We chose a pilot field of ~0.4 deg2 located in the South-west of the Small Magelllanic Cloud bar, where the star f... Read More about The VMC Survey - XXI. New star cluster candidates discovered from infrared photometry in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae (2016)
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Cioni, M. L., Bekki, K., Girardi, L., de Grijs, R., Irwin, M. J., Ivanov, V. D., …Van Loon, J. T. (2016). XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 586, Article A77. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527004

Aims. In this study we use multi-epoch near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Cloud system (VMC) to measure the proper motions of different stellar populations in a tile of 1.5 deg2 in size in the direction of the Galactic... Read More about XVII. Proper motions of the Small Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way globular cluster 47 Tucanae.

Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI (2015)
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Ward, J., Oliveira, J., van Loon, J., & Sewilo, M. (2015). Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 11(S315), https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316008449

At distances of ~50 kpc and ~60 kpc for the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) respectively the Magellanic Clouds present us with a unique opportunity to study star formation in environments outside our own galaxy. Through... Read More about Characterising the Protostellar Population of the Magellanic Clouds with VLT/SINFONI.

Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Oliveira, J. M., van Loon, J. T., & Sewiło, M. (2015). Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results. . https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316008231

We present preliminary results from spectroscopy obtained with PACS and SPIRE onboard the Herschel Space Observatory of a sample of massive Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds. We analyse key gas-phase cooling species (OI], [CII], H2O, CO,... Read More about Young Stellar Objects in the Magellanic Clouds: Herschel Spectroscopy First Results.

Spitzer infrared spectrograph point source classification in the Small Magellanic Cloud (2015)
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Ruffle, P. M., Kemper, F., Jones, O., Sloan, G., Kraemer, K., Woods, P. M., …Zijlstra, A. (2015). Spitzer infrared spectrograph point source classification in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 451(4), 3504 -3536. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv1106

The Magellanic Clouds are uniquely placed to study the stellar contribution to dust emission. Individual stars can be resolved in these systems even in the mid-infrared, and they are close enough to allow detection of infrared excess caused by dust.... Read More about Spitzer infrared spectrograph point source classification in the Small Magellanic Cloud.

Star formation rates from young-star counts and the structure of the ISM across the NGC 346/N66 complex in the SMC (2015)
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Hony, S., Gouliermis, D., Galliano, F., Galametz, M., Cormier, D., Chen, C., …Wu, R. (2015). Star formation rates from young-star counts and the structure of the ISM across the NGC 346/N66 complex in the SMC. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 448(2), 1847 - 1862. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stv107

The rate at which interstellar gas is converted into stars, and its dependence on environment, is one of the pillars on which our understanding of the visible Universe is build. We present a comparison of the surface density of young stars (S?) and d... Read More about Star formation rates from young-star counts and the structure of the ISM across the NGC 346/N66 complex in the SMC.

ERRATUM: “THE HERSCHEL INVENTORY OF THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION (HERITAGE) IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, A HERSCHEL OPEN TIME KEY PROGRAM” (2013, AJ, 146, 62) (2015)
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Meixner, M., Panuzzo, P., Roman-Duval, J., Engelbracht, C., Babler, B., Seale, J., …Whitney, B. (2015). ERRATUM: “THE HERSCHEL INVENTORY OF THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION (HERITAGE) IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, A HERSCHEL OPEN TIME KEY PROGRAM” (2013, AJ, 146, 62). Astronomical Journal, 149(2), Article 88. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/149/2/88

We provide a corrected Table 4 that lists the total galaxy fluxes for the HERTIAGE bands and corresponding Figure 19 which plots these fluxes in comparison to prior measurements These corrected fluxes differ by up to 41% to what we reported in the or... Read More about ERRATUM: “THE HERSCHEL INVENTORY OF THE AGENTS OF GALAXY EVOLUTION (HERITAGE) IN THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS, A HERSCHEL OPEN TIME KEY PROGRAM” (2013, AJ, 146, 62).

HERschelKEY PROGRAM HERITAGE: A FAR-INFRARED SOURCE CATALOG FOR THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS (2014)
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Seale, J. P., Meixner, M., Sewiło, M., Babler, B., Engelbracht, C. W., Gordon, K., …Woods, P. M. (in press). HERschelKEY PROGRAM HERITAGE: A FAR-INFRARED SOURCE CATALOG FOR THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS. Astronomical Journal, 148(6), 124. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/148/6/124

Observations from the HERschel Inventory of the Agents of Galaxy Evolution (HERITAGE) have been used to identify dusty populations of sources in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). We conducted the study using the HERITAGE catalogs o... Read More about HERschelKEY PROGRAM HERITAGE: A FAR-INFRARED SOURCE CATALOG FOR THE MAGELLANIC CLOUDS.

Spitzer View Of Massive Star Formation In The Tidally Stripped Magellanic Bridge (2014)
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Rosie Chen, C., Indebetouw, R., Muller, E., Kawamura, A., Gordon, K. D., Sewiło, M., …Van Loon, J. (2014). Spitzer View Of Massive Star Formation In The Tidally Stripped Magellanic Bridge. Astrophysical Journal, 785(2), Article 162. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/785/2/162

The Magellanic Bridge is the nearest low-metallicity, tidally stripped environment, offering a unique high-resolution view of physical conditions in merging and forming galaxies. In this paper, we present an analysis of candidate massive young stella... Read More about Spitzer View Of Massive Star Formation In The Tidally Stripped Magellanic Bridge.

The VMC survey IX. Pilot study of the proper motion of stellar populations in the LMC from 2MASS and VISTA data (2014)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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.

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., …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?.