TY  - JOUR
A1  - Nidever, David L.
A1  - Olsen, Knut
A1  - Walker, Alistair R.
A1  - Katherina Vivas, A.
A1  - Blum, Robert D.
A1  - Kaleida, Catherine
A1  - Choi, Yumi
A1  - Conn, Blair C.
A1  - Gruendl, Robert A.
A1  - Bell, Eric F.
A1  - Besla, Gurtina
A1  - Munoz, Ricardo R.
A1  - Gallart, Carme
A1  - Martin, Nicolas F.
A1  - Olszewski, Edward W.
A1  - Saha, Abhijit
A1  - Monachesi, Antonela
A1  - Monelli, Matteo
A1  - de Boer, Thomas J. L.
A1  - Johnson, L. Clifton
A1  - Zaritsky, Dennis
A1  - Stringfellow, Guy S.
A1  - van der Marel, Roeland P.
A1  - Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.
A1  - Jin, Shoko
A1  - Majewski, Steven R.
A1  - Martinez-Delgado, David
A1  - Monteagudo, Lara
A1  - Noel, Noelia E. D.
A1  - Bernard, Edouard J.
A1  - Kunder, Andrea
A1  - Chu, You-Hua
A1  - Bell, Cameron P. M.
A1  - Santana, Felipe
A1  - Frechem, Joshua
A1  - Medina, Gustavo E.
A1  - Parkash, Vaishali
A1  - Seron Navarrete, J. C.
A1  - Hayes, Christian
T1  - SMASH: Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History
JF  - The astronomical journal
N2  - The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are unique local laboratories for studying the formation and evolution of small galaxies in exquisite detail. The Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH) is an NOAO community Dark Energy Camera (DECam) survey of the Clouds mapping 480 deg2 (distributed over similar to 2400 square degrees at similar to 20% filling factor) to similar to 24th. mag in ugriz. The primary goals of SMASH are to identify low surface brightness stellar populations associated with the stellar halos and tidal debris of the Clouds, and to derive spatially resolved star formation histories. Here, we present a summary of the survey, its data reduction, and a description of the first public Data Release (DR1). The SMASH DECam data have been reduced with a combination of the NOAO Community Pipeline, the PHOTRED automated point-spread-function photometry pipeline, and custom calibration software. The astrometric precision is similar to 15 mas and the accuracy is similar to 2 mas with respect to the Gaia reference frame. The photometric precision is similar to 0.5%-0.7% in griz and similar to 1% in u with a calibration accuracy of similar to 1.3% in all bands. The median 5s point source depths in ugriz are 23.9, 24.8, 24.5, 24.2, and 23.5 mag. The SMASH data have already been used to discover the Hydra II Milky Way satellite, the SMASH 1 old globular cluster likely associated with the LMC, and extended stellar populations around the LMC out to R. similar to. 18.4 kpc. SMASH DR1 contains measurements of similar to 100 million objects distributed in 61 fields. A prototype version of the NOAO Data Lab provides data access and exploration tools.
KW  - galaxies: dwarf
KW  - galaxies: individual (Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud)
KW  - Local Group
KW  - Magellanic Clouds
KW  - surveys
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aa8d1c
SN  - 0004-6256
SN  - 1538-3881
VL  - 154
SP  - 310
EP  - 326
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Martin, Nicolas F.
A1  - Nidever, David L.
A1  - Besla, Gurtina
A1  - Olsen, Knut
A1  - Walker, Alistair R.
A1  - Vivas, A. Katherina
A1  - Gruendl, Robert A.
A1  - Kaleida, Catherine C.
A1  - Munoz, Ricardo R.
A1  - Blum, Robert D.
A1  - Saha, Abhijit
A1  - Conn, Blair C.
A1  - Bell, Eric F.
A1  - Chu, You-Hua
A1  - Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.
A1  - de Boer, Thomas J. L.
A1  - Gallart, Carme
A1  - Jin, Shoko
A1  - Kunder, Andrea
A1  - Majewski, Steven R.
A1  - Martinez-Delgado, David
A1  - Monachesi, Antonela
A1  - Monelli, Matteo
A1  - Monteagudo, Lara
A1  - Noel, Noelia E. D.
A1  - Olszewski, Edward W.
A1  - Stringfellow, Guy S.
A1  - van der Marel, Roeland P.
A1  - Zaritsky, Dennis
T1  - Hydra II: A faint and compact milky way dwarf galaxy found in the survey of the magellanic stellar history
JF  - The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics ; Part 2, Letters
N2  - We present the discovery of a new dwarf galaxy, Hydra II, found serendipitously within the data from the ongoing Survey of the Magellanic Stellar History conducted with the Dark Energy Camera on the Blanco 4 m Telescope. The new satellite is compact (r(h) = 68 +/- 11 pc) and faint (MV = -4.8 +/- 0.3), but well within the realm of dwarf galaxies. The stellar distribution of Hydra II in the color-magnitude diagram is well-described by a metal-poor ([Fe/H] = -2.2) and old (13 Gyr) isochrone and shows a distinct blue horizontal branch, some possible red clump stars, and faint stars that are suggestive of blue stragglers. At a heliocentric distance of 134 +/- 10 kpc, Hydra II is located in a region of the Galactic halo that models have suggested may host material from the leading arm of the Magellanic Stream. A comparison with N-body simulations hints that the new dwarf galaxy could be or could have been a satellite of the Magellanic Clouds.
KW  - galaxies: individual (Hydra II)
KW  - Local Group
KW  - Magellanic Clouds
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L5
SN  - 2041-8205
SN  - 2041-8213
VL  - 804
IS  - 1
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Townsley, Leisa K.
A1  - Broos, Patrick S.
A1  - Corcoran, Michael F.
A1  - Feigelson, Eric D.
A1  - Gagne, Marc
A1  - Montmerle, Thierry
A1  - Oey, M. S.
A1  - Smith, Nathan
A1  - Garmire, Gordon P.
A1  - Getman, Konstantin V.
A1  - Povich, Matthew S.
A1  - Evans, Nancy Remage
A1  - Naze, Yael
A1  - Parkin, E. R.
A1  - Preibisch, Thomas
A1  - Wang, Junfeng
A1  - Wou, Scott J.
A1  - Chu, You-Hua
A1  - Cohen, David H.
A1  - Gruendl, Robert A.
A1  - Hamaguchi, Kenji
A1  - King, Robert R.
A1  - Mac Low, Mordecai-Mark
A1  - McCaughrean, Mark J.
A1  - Moffat, Anthony F. J.
A1  - Oskinova, Lida
A1  - Pittard, Julian M.
A1  - Stassun, Keivan G.
A1  - Ud-Doula, Asif
A1  - Walborn, Nolan R.
A1  - Waldron, Wayne L.
A1  - Churchwell, Ed
A1  - Nictiols, J. S.
A1  - Owocki, Stanley P.
A1  - Schulz, Norbert S.
T1  - An introduction to the chandra carina complex project
JF  - The astrophysical journal : an international review of spectroscopy and astronomical physics ; Supplement series
N2  - The Great Nebula in Carina provides an exceptional view into the violent massive star formation and feedback that typifies giant H II regions and starburst galaxies. We have mapped the Carina star-forming complex in X-rays, using archival Chandra data and a mosaic of 20 new 60 ks pointings using the Chandra X-ray Observatory's Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer, as a testbed for understanding recent and ongoing star formation and to probe Carina's regions of bright diffuse X-ray emission. This study has yielded a catalog of properties of > 14,000 X-ray point sources;> 9800 of them have multiwavelength counterparts. Using Chandra's unsurpassed X-ray spatial resolution, we have separated these point sources from the extensive, spatially-complex diffuse emission that pervades the region; X-ray properties of this diffuse emission suggest that it traces feedback from Carina's massive stars. In this introductory paper, we motivate the survey design, describe the Chandra observations, and present some simple results, providing a foundation for the 15 papers that follow in this special issue and that present detailed catalogs, methods, and science results.
KW  - H II regions
KW  - stars: massive
KW  - stars: pre-main sequence
KW  - X-rays: individual (Carina)
KW  - X-rays: ISM
KW  - X-rays: stars
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/194/1/1
SN  - 0067-0049
VL  - 194
IS  - 1
PB  - IOP Publ. Ltd.
CY  - Bristol
ER  -