The Large Magellanic Cloud as a Galaxy

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #192.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

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The LMC is unusual in that its history and properties have been affected by its close proximity to the Milky Way and interactions with the SMC. Yet in many ways, such as the structure of its main stellar body and chemical abundance patterns, the LMC also is a fairly normal example of a moderate luminosity disk galaxy. Because the LMC is nearby with little extinction and a low inclination, it remains the best studied galaxy other than the Milky Way. In the spirit of our program, Surveying the Agents of a Galaxy's Evolution (SAGE), this talk charts the locations and parameters of major baryonic components of the LMC, ISM and stars, and briefly summarizes the history of star formation in the LMC. The state of the LMC's interstellar medium in relationship to the global structure of the galaxy and populations of recently formed stars is one of the primary topics of SAGE, and will be discussed with an emphasis on differences between conditions in the LMC and those in the Milky Way.
The SAGE Project is supported by NASA/Spitzer grant 1275598 and NASA NAG5-12595

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