Browsing by Author "Rubele, S."

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    • New near-infrared period-luminosity-metallicity relations for RR Lyrae stars and the outlook for GAIA 

      Muraveva, T.; Palmer, Max; Clementini, Gisella; Luri, Xavier; Cioni, M-R.L.; Moretti, M.I.; Marconi, M.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S. (2015-07-07)
      We present results of the analysis of 70 RR Lyrae stars located in the bar of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Combining the spectroscopically determined metallicity of these stars from the literature with precise periods ...

    • Recovery of the star formation history of the LMC from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic system 

      Kerber, L.O.; Girardi, L.; Rubele, S.; Cioni, M-R.L. (2009)
      The VISTA near infrared survey of the Magellanic System (VMC) will provide deep YJKs photometry reaching stars in the oldest turn-off point throughout the Magellanic Clouds (MCs). As part of the preparation for the survey, ...

    • The VMC survey - IX : Pilot study of the proper motion of stellar populations in the LMC from 2MASS and VISTA data 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Giradi, L.; Moretti, M.I.; Piffl, T.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S.; Scholz, R.D.; Bekki, K.; Clementini, G.; Ivanov, V.D.; Oliveira, J.M.; van Loon, J. Th (2014-02)
      Proper motion (PM) studies are fundamental ingredients in the understanding of the orbital history of galaxies. Current measurements do not yet provide a satisfactory answer to the possible scenarios for the formation and ...

    • The VMC survey - V : First results for classical Cepheids 

      Ripepi, V.; Moretti, M.I.; Marconi, M.; Clementini, G.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marquette, J-B.; Girardi, L.; Rubele, S.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; de Grijs, R.; Gibson, B. K.; Oliveira, J.M.; van Loon, J. Th; Emerson, J.P. (2012-08)
      The VISTA Magellanic Cloud (VMC; PI: M.-R. L. Cioni) survey is collecting deep Ks-band time series photometry of the pulsating variable stars hosted by the system formed by the two Magellanic Clouds (MCs) and the bridge ...

    • The VMC survey - VII : Reddening map of the 30 Doradus field and the structure of the cold interstellar medium 

      Tatton, B.; van Loon, J. Th; Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Emerson, J.P.; Girardi, L.; de Grijs, R.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Gullieuszik, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S. (2013-06)
      The details of how galaxies have evolved over cosmological times are imprinted in their star formation history, chemical enrichment and morpho-kinematic structure. Parameters behind these, such as effective temperature and ...

    • The VMC survey - X : The technique of using Cepheids, RR Lyrae stars and binaries to probe the Magellanic system structure 

      Moretti, M.I.; Clementini, G.; Tatiana, Muraveva; Ripepi, V.; Marquette, J-B.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marconi, M.; Girardi, L.; Rubele, S.; Tisserand, P.; de Grijs, R.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Guandalini, Roald; Ivanov, V.D.; van Loon, J. Th (2014-01)
      The VISTA near-infrared Y, J, Ks survey of the Magellanic System (VMC) survey is obtaining multi-epoch photometry in the Ks band of the Magellanic System down to a limiting magnitude of Ks~19.3 for individual epoch data. ...

    • The VMC survey - XI : Radial Stellar Population Gradients in the Galactic Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae 

      Chengyan, Li; de Grijs, R.; Deng, Licai; Rubele, S.; Wang, Chuchu; Bekki, K.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Emerson, J.P.; For, Bi-Qing; Girardi, L.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Guandalini, Roald; Gullieuszik, M.; Marconi, M.; Piatti, Andres; Ripepi, V.; van Loon, J. Th. (2014-07)
      We present a deep near-infrared color-magnitude diagram of the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae, obtained with the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) as part of the VISTA near-infrared Y, J, ...

    • The VMC survey - XIV : First results on the look-back time star formation rate tomography of the Small Magellanic Cloud 

      Rubele, S.; Girardi, L.; Kerber, L.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Piatti, A.E.; Zaggia, S.; Bekki, K.; Bressan, A.; Clementini, G.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Marconi, M.; Marigo, P.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Subramanian, S.; Tatton, B.L.; van Loon, J. Th (2015-05-01)
      We analyse deep images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds in the YJKs filters, covering 14 deg2 (10 tiles), split into 120 subregions, and comprising the main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). ...

    • The VMC survey - XV : The Small Magellanic Cloud-Bridge connection history as traced by their star cluster populations 

      Piatti, A.E.; de Grijs, R.; Rubele, S.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Ripepi, V.; Kerber, L. (2015-06-11)
      We present results based on YJKs photometry of star clusters located in the outermost, eastern region of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We analysed a total of 51 catalogued clusters whose colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), ...

    • The VMC survey - XVI : Spatial variation of the cluster-formation activity in the innermost regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud 

      Piatti, Andrés E.; De Grijs, Richard; Ripepi, V.; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marconi, M.; Rubele, S.; Bekki, K.; For, Bi-Qing (2015-11-21)
      We present results based on YJKs photometry of star clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), distributed throughout the central part of the galaxy's bar and the 30 Doradus region. We analysed the field-star-decontaminated ...

    • The VMC survey - XVIII : Radial dependence of the low-mass, 0.57-0.82 Msun stellar mass function in the galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae 

      Chaoli, Zhang; Li, Chengyuan; De Grijs, Richard; Bekki, K.; Deng, Licai; Zaggia, S.; Rubele, S.; Piatti, Andrés E.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Emerson, J.P.; For, Bi-Qing; Ripepi, V.; Marconi, Marcella; Ivanov, Valentin D.; Chen, Li (2015-12-14)
      We use near-infrared observations obtained as part of the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), as well as two complementary Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data ...

    • The VMC survey - XX. Identification of new Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud 

      Moretti, M. I.; Clementini, G.; Ripepi, V.; Marconi, M.; Rubele, S.; Cioni, M. R L; Muraveva, T.; Groenewegen, M. A T; Cross, N. J G; Ivanov, V. D.; Piatti, A. E.; de Grijs, R. (2016-06-21)
      We present Ks-band light curves for 299 Cepheids in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) of which 288 are new discoveries that we have identified using multi-epoch near-infrared photometry obtained by the VISTA survey of the ...

    • The VMC survey I. Strategy and first data 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Clementini, G.; Girardi, L.; Guandalini, R.; Gullieuszik, M.; Miszalski, B.; Moretti, M.I.; Ripepi, V.; Rubele, S.; Bagheri, G.; Bekki, K.; Cross, N.J.G.; de Blok, W.J.G.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Evans, C.J.; Gibson, B.; Gonzales-Solares, E.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Irwin, M.J.; Ivanov, V.D.; Lewis, J.; Marconi, M.; Marquette, J-B.; Mastropietro, C.; Moore, B.; Napiwotzki, R.; Naylor, T.; Oliveira, J.M.; Read, M.; Sutorius, E.; van Loon, J.T.; Wilkinson, M.I.; Wood, P.R. (2011-03)
      Context: The new VISual and Infrared Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) has started operations. Over its first five years it will be collecting data for six public surveys, one of which is the near-infrared YJK(s) VISTA survey ...

    • The VMC survey VI : Quasars behind the Magellanic system 

      Cioni, M-R.L.; Kamath, D.; Wood, P.R.; Rubele, S.; Van Loon, J.T.; Emerson, J.P.; Gibson, B. K.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Ivanov, V.D.; Miszalski, B.; Ripepi, V. (2013-01)
      Context. The number and spatial distribution of confirmed quasi-stellar objects (QSOs) behind the Magellanic system is limited. This undermines their use as astrometric reference objects for different types of studies. ...

    • The VMC survey: IV : the LMC star formation history and disk geometry from four VMC tiles 

      Rubele, S.; Kerber, L.O.; Girardi, L.; Cioni, M-R.L.; Marigo, P.; Zaggia, S.; Bekki, K.; de Grijs, R.; Emerson, J.P.; Groenewegen, M.A.T.; Gullieuszik, M.; Ivanov, V.D.; Miszalski, Brent; Oliveira, J.M.; Tatton, B.; van Loon, J.T. (2012-01)
      We derive the star formation history (SFH) for several regions of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), using deep near-infrared data from the VISTA near-infrared YJK s survey of the Magellanic system (VMC). The regions include ...