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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21522701m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #227.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.544
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The recycling of matter between the interstellar medium (ISM) and stars are key evolutionary drivers of a galaxy's baryonic matter. The Spitzer wavelengths provide a sensitive probe of circumstellar and interstellar dust and hence, allow us to study the physical processes of the ISM, the formation of new stars and the injection of mass by evolved stars and their relationships on the galaxy-wide scale of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC). Due to their proximity, multi-wavelength information, and measured tidal interactions, the LMC and SMC system is uniquely suited for surveying the agents of galaxy evolution (SAGE), the ISM and stars. The SAGE projects are measuring these key transition points in the life cycle of baryonic matter in the LMC and SMC. Here we review the SAGE source lists and improved images that have been recently released to the community for further investigations. We present a connective view of the preliminary quantities estimated from SAGE projects for the total mass of the ISM, the galaxy wide star formation rate and the current stellar mass loss return. For context, we compare these numbers to other global properties of the Magellanic Clouds, such as stellar mass, dynamical mass and ages of the system. We end with a forward look towards Herschel Space Observatory data expected in the coming year.
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