A Distance determination to the Small Magellanic Cloud with an accuracy of better than two percent based on late-type eclipsing binary stars

D Graczyk, G Pietrzyński, IB Thompson… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a new study of late-type eclipsing binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
(SMC) undertaken with the aim of improving the distance determination to this important …

DELVE 6: An Ancient, Ultra-faint Star Cluster on the Outskirts of the Magellanic Clouds

W Cerny, A Drlica-Wagner, TS Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the discovery of DELVE 6, an ultra-faint stellar system identified in the second
data release of the DECam Local Volume Exploration (DELVE) survey. Based on a …

Constraining the thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch phase with resolved stellar populations in the Small Magellanic Cloud

G Pastorelli, P Marigo, L Girardi, Y Chen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The thermally pulsing asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) experienced by low-and
intermediate-mass stars is one of the most uncertain phases of stellar evolution and the …

Testing physical models for cosmic ray transport coefficients on galactic scales: self-confinement and extrinsic turbulence at∼ GeV energies

PF Hopkins, J Squire, TK Chan… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The microphysics of∼ GeV cosmic ray (CR) transport on galactic scales remain deeply
uncertain, with almost all studies adopting simple prescriptions (eg constant diffusivity). We …

The VMC survey–XXV. The 3D structure of the Small Magellanic Cloud from Classical Cepheids

V Ripepi, MRL Cioni, MI Moretti… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the Magellanic System (VMC) is collecting deep K s-
band time-series photometry of pulsating stars hosted by the two Magellanic Clouds and …

Combined analysis of neutron star natal kicks using proper motions and parallax measurements for radio pulsars and Be X-ray binaries

AP Igoshev, M Chruslinska… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Supernova explosion and the associated neutron star (NS) natal kicks are important events
on a pathway of a binary to become a gravitational wave source, an X-ray binary, or a …

OGLE-ing the Magellanic System: three-dimensional structure of the clouds and the bridge using classical Cepheids

AM Jacyszyn-Dobrzeniecka, DM Skowron… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2016 - arxiv.org
We analyzed a sample of 9418 fundamental-mode and first-overtone Classical Cepheids
from the OGLE-IV Collection of Classical Cepheids. The distance to each Cepheid was …

Toward an internally consistent astronomical distance scale

R De Grijs, F Courbin, CE Martinez-Vazquez… - Space Science …, 2017 - Springer
Accurate astronomical distance determination is crucial for all fields in astrophysics, from
Galactic to cosmological scales. Despite, or perhaps because of, significant efforts to …

Binarity at LOw Metallicity (BLOeM)-A spectroscopic VLT monitoring survey of massive stars in the SMC

T Shenar, J Bodensteiner, H Sana… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
Surveys in the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud have revealed that the majority of
massive stars will interact with companions during their lives. However, knowledge of the …

The VMC survey–XXXI: The spatially resolved star formation history of the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud

S Rubele, G Pastorelli, L Girardi… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We recover the spatially resolved star formation history across the entire main body and
Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using 14 deep tile images from the VISTA …