A near-infrared VISTA of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Maria-Rosa L. Cioni, Florian Niederhofer, Stefano Rubele, Ning-Chen, Sun
TL;DR
This paper presents detailed near-infrared observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud from the VISTA survey, revealing insights into stellar populations, proper motions, and star formation history over six years.
Contribution
It provides the first comprehensive near-infrared multi-epoch dataset of the SMC, enabling detailed analysis of its stellar populations and dynamics.
Findings
Clustering of young stellar populations identified
Proper motions of stars measured across the galaxy
Spatial distribution of star formation history mapped
Abstract
VISTA observed the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), as part of the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), for six years (2010-2016). The acquired multi-epoch YJKs images have allowed us to probe the stellar populations to an exceptional level of detail across an unprecedented wide area in the near-infrared. This contribution highlights the most recent VMC results obtained on the SMC focusing, in particular, on the clustering of young stellar populations, on the proper motion of stars in the main body of the galaxy and on the spatial distribution of the star formation history.
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