Observations with the parking lot camera. I - Surface photometry and color distribution of the Magellanic Clouds

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Sep 1988

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Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 96, Sept. 1988, p. 877-883.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

93

Astronomical Photometry, Dwarf Galaxies, Elliptical Galaxies, Magellanic Clouds, Star Formation Rate, Brightness Distribution, Charge Coupled Devices, Irregular Galaxies, Mass Distribution, Stellar Color, Virgo Galactic Cluster

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An optical system with a 6 x 10 deg field of view was used to obtain B, V, and R CCD images of the SMC and LMC. SMC is found to have a coherent connected pattern of very recent star formation and the overall properties of star-forming dwarf ellipticals in the Virgo Cluster. While the LMC shows a largely random pattern of star formation, some hierarchical clustering of different age regions is noted. Neither galaxy displays significant evidence for a globally large star-formation rate at the present epoch. It is suggested that if the mass distribution of the LMC was once exponential in form, beyond the 1/2 mass radius, approximately 30 percent of this mass has been lost.

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