Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Dec 2006
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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #27.05; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, V
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
I report on observations of the stellar populations in twelve fields spanning the region between the Magellanic Clouds, made with the Mosaic camera on the 4-meter telescope at the Cerro-Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The two main goals of the observations are to charaterize the young stellar population (which presumably formed in situ in the Bridge and therefore represents the nearest stellar population formed in tidal debris), and to search for an older stellar component (which would have been stripped from either Cloud as stars, by the same tidal forces which formed the gaseous Bridge). I determine the star-formation histories of the young inter-Cloud populations, which provides a constraint on the timing of the gravitational interaction which formed the Bridge. I do not detect an older stellar population belonging to the Bridge in any of our fields, implying that the material that was stripped from the Clouds was very nearly a pure gas.
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