Physics
Scientific paper
Nov 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985natur.318..160i&link_type=abstract
Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 318, Nov. 14, 1985, p. 160, 161. SERC-NSERC-supported research.
Physics
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Blue Stars, Hydrogen Clouds, Magellanic Clouds, Main Sequence Stars, Star Distribution, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Color-Magnitude Diagram, Galactic Structure, Spatial Distribution, Stellar Evolution, Stellar Luminosity, Stellar Magnitude
Scientific paper
Radio observations have shown that a common H I cloud surrounds the Magellanic Cloud system. However, no stellar link between the two galaxies has previously been found. The furthest known stellar extension eastward of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is the blue association of stars found by Kunkel, which lie close to the extreme tip of the "wing" of the SMC. The authors now report the discovery of several hundred blue main-sequence stars in an area reaching 9° east of the SMC, coinciding with the H I ridge extending from the wing. These stars lie midway between the two clouds and are more than 2 kpc further east than what was believed to be the eastern tip of the SMC wing. The apparent magnitudes of the brightest main-sequence stars suggest an age of ≡100 Myr, similar to ages of associations in the wing.
Demers Serge
Irwin Mary Jane
Kunkel William E.
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