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Euclid: Data Release 1 (DR1) -- Fornax-7, an ultra-faint companion to the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy? A remote star cluster or dwarf satellite of the Fornax dSph
T. Saifollahi, A. Lançon, A. M. N. Ferguson +165
We report the discovery of an ultra-faint stellar system in the vicinity of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy in Euclid DR1. This system, which we designate Fornax-7, is lo…
Revisiting the enigmatic sixth star cluster in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy
Chiara Crociati, Annette M. N. Ferguson, Raffaele Pascale +7
The Fornax dwarf spheroidal (dSph) galaxy is one of only two Local Group dSphs that host a population of globular star clusters (GCs), the present-day properties of which have ofte…
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XX. Star formation in the tidal tail of NGC 4254
A. Boselli, A. Lupi, P. Serra +26
ALMA 12CO(1-0) observations of 42 star-forming regions located outside the disc of the Virgo Cluster galaxy NGC4254 within an HI gas tail produced during the galaxy's interaction w…
Euclid: Early Release Observations -- The star-formation history of massive early-type galaxies in the Perseus cluster
S. Martocchia, A. Boselli, J. -C. Cuillandre +157
The Euclid Early Release Observations (ERO) programme targeted the Perseus galaxy cluster in its central region over 0.7deg. We combined the exceptional image quality and depth…
Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters -- II. Kinematic structure of young and intermediate-age clusters
F. Niederhofer, L. Cullinane, D. Massari +14
In this paper, we explore the kinematic properties of a sample of 19 young (<1 Gyr) and intermediate-age (1-2.5 Gyr) massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).…
Cluster Ages to Reconstruct the Milky Way Assembly (CARMA) IV. Chrono-dynamics of seven old star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud and the peculiar origin of NGC 1841
F. Niederhofer, D. Massari, F. Aguado-Agelet +15
In this study, we report conclusive evidence for an ancient star cluster that has been accreted by the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). By leveraging observations from the Hubble Spac…
Resolving Individual Stars in Nearby Large Galaxies with the Habitable Worlds Observatory
Adam Smercina, Tara Fetherolf, Eric W. Koch +3
The varied and dynamic evolutionary histories of galaxies give rise to the stunning diversity in their properties that we observe in the present-day universe. HST, and now JWST, ha…
Constraining star formation in M87 using deep HST UV data
Prathamesh Tamhane, William Waldron, Ming Sun +11
We analyzed the deepest Hubble Space Telescope (HST) F275W ultraviolet (UV) imaging of M87 to obtain the most robust constraints on its star formation rate (SFR) and star formation…
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE). XIX. The discovery of a spectacular 230 kpc Halpha tail following NGC 4569 in the Virgo cluster
M. Sun, H. Le, B. Epinat +16
Context. Galaxies fly inside galaxy clusters and ram pressure by the ICM can remove a large amount of the ISM from the galaxy, and deposit the gas in the ICM. The ISM decoupled fro…
Stellar rotation in the intermediate-age massive cluster NGC 1783: clues on the nature of UV-dim stars
Silvia Leanza, Emanuele Dalessandro, Mario Cadelano +9
Over the past decade, stellar rotation has emerged as a key factor in shaping the morphology of color-magnitude diagrams of young and intermediate-age star clusters. In this study,…
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE) XVIII. Reconstructing the star formation history of early-type galaxies through the combination of their UV and H emission
S. Martocchia, A. Boselli, C. Maraston +21
We reconstruct the SFHs of 7 massive () early-type galaxies (ETGs) in the Virgo cluster by analysing their spatially resolved stellar population…
A stellar census in globular clusters with MUSE. Metallicity spread and dispersion among first-population stars
M. Latour, S. Kamann, S. Martocchia +3
Multiple populations are ubiquitous in the old massive globular clusters (GCs) of the Milky Way. It is still unclear how they arose during the formation of a GC. The topic of iron…
Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters -- I. Catalogues and results for NGC 1850
F. Niederhofer, A. Bellini, V. Kozhurina-Platais +11
We present proper motion (PM) measurements for a sample of 23 massive star clusters within the Large Magellanic Cloud using multi-epoch data from the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).…
Expanding the time domain of multiple populations: evidences of nitrogen variations in the ~1.5 Gyr old star cluster NGC 1783
M. Cadelano, E. Dalessandro, M. Salaris +5
We present the result of a detailed analysis of HST UV and optical deep images of the massive and young (~1.5 Gyr) stellar cluster NGC 1783 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This syst…
On the Nitrogen variation in ~2 Gyr old massive star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud
S. Martocchia, C. Lardo, M. Rejkuba +8
We present ESO/VLT FORS2 low resolution spectroscopy of red giant branch stars in three massive, intermediate age ( Gyr) star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud.…
Searching for globular cluster chemical anomalies on the main sequence of a young massive cluster
I. Cabrera-Ziri, J. S. Speagle, E. Dalessandro +9
The spectroscopic and photometric signals of the star-to-star abundance variations found in globular clusters seem to be correlated with global parameters like the cluster's metall…
Photometric characterization of multiple populations in star clusters: The impact of the first dredge-up
Maurizio Salaris, Chris Usher, Silvia Martocchia +6
The existence of star-to-star light-element abundance variations (multiple populations, MPs) in massive Galactic and extragalactic star clusters older than about 2 Gyr is by now we…
Multiple Populations in Integrated Light Spectroscopy of Intermediate Age Clusters
Nate Bastian, Christopher Usher, Sebastian Kamann +9
The presence of star-to-star light-element abundance variations (a.k.a. multiple populations, MPs) appears to be ubiquitous within old and massive clusters in the Milky Way and all…
Spectroscopic detection of multiple populations in the ~2 Gyr old cluster Hodge 6 in the LMC
K. Hollyhead, S. Martocchia, C. Lardo +8
We report the spectroscopic discovery of abundance spreads (i.e. multiple populations) in the ~2 Gyr old cluster in the LMC, Hodge 6. We use low resolution VLT FORS2 spectra of 15…
Cluster kinematics and stellar rotation in NGC 419 with MUSE and adaptive optics
Sebastian Kamann, Nathan J. Bastian, Tim-Oliver Husser +9
We present adaptive optics (AO) assisted integral-field spectroscopy of the intermediate-age star cluster NGC 419 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. By investigating the cluster dynami…
Interpreting the complex CMDs of the Magellanic Clouds clusters
I. Cabrera-Ziri, S. Martocchia, K. Hollyhead +1
The Magellanic Clouds host a large population of massive (> 10^4 Msun) star clusters with ages ranging from a few Myr to 12 Gyr. In nearly all cases, close inspection of their CMDs…
Age as a Major Factor in the Onset of Multiple Populations in Stellar Clusters
S. Martocchia, I. Cabrera-Ziri, C. Lardo +16
It is now well established that globular clusters (GCs) exhibit star-to-star light-element abundance variations (known as multiple stellar populations, MPs). Such chemical anomalie…
The WISSH quasars Project: II. Giant star nurseries in hyper-luminous quasars
F. Duras, A. Bongiorno, E. Piconcelli +12
Studying the coupling between the energy output produced by the central quasar and the host galaxy is fundamental to fully understand galaxy evolution. Quasar feedback is indeed su…
The Search for Multiple Populations in Magellanic Cloud Clusters III: No evidence for Multiple Populations in the SMC cluster NGC 419
S. Martocchia, N. Bastian, C. Usher +16
We present the third paper about our ongoing HST survey for the search for multiple stellar populations (MPs) within Magellanic Cloud clusters. We report here the analysis of NGC 4…