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The LMC geometry and outer stellar populations from early DES data

Eduardo Balbinot B. X. Santiago L. Girardi A. Pieres L. N. da Costa M. A. G. Maia R. A. Gruendl A. R. Walker B. Yanny A. Drlica-Wagner A. Benoit-Levy T. M. C. Abbott S. S. Allam J. Annis J. P. Bernstein R. A. Bernstein E. Bertin 1 D. Brooks E. Buckley-Geer A. Carnero Rosell C. E. Cunha D. L. Depoy S. Desai H. T. Diehl P. Doel J. Estrada A. E. Evrard 1 A. Fausti Neto D. A. Finley B. Flaugher J. A. Frieman D. Gruen K. Honscheid D. James K. Kuehn N. Kuropatkin O. Lahav M. March J. L. Marshall C. Miller R. Miquel R. Ogando J. Peoples A. Plazas V. Scarpine M. Schubnell I. Sevilla-Noarbe R. C. Smith M. Soares-Santos E. Suchyta M. E. C. Swanson G. Tarle D. L. Tucker R. Wechsler J. Zuntz
1 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Abstract : The Dark Energy Camera has captured a large set of images as part of Science Verification (SV) for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). The SV footprint covers a large portion of the outer Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), providing photometry 1.5 mag fainter than the main sequence turn-off of the oldest LMC stellar population. We derive geometrical and structural parameters for various stellar populations in the LMC disc. For the distribution of all LMC stars, we find an inclination of i = -38.14° ± 0.08° (near side in the north) and a position angle for the line of nodes of θ0 = 129.51° ± 0.17°. We find that stars younger than ∼4 Gyr are more centrally concentrated than older stars. Fitting a projected exponential disc shows that the scale radius of the old populations is R>4 Gyr = 1.41 ± 0.01 kpc, while the younger population has R<4 Gyr = 0.72 ± 0.01 kpc. However, the spatial distribution of the younger population deviates significantly from the projected exponential disc model. The distribution of old stars suggests a large truncation radius of Rt = 13.5 ± 0.8 kpc. If this truncation is dominated by the tidal field of the Galaxy, we find that the LMC is {∼eq } 24^{+9}_{-6} times less massive than the encircled Galactic mass. By measuring the Red Clump peak magnitude and comparing with the best-fitting LMC disc model, we find that the LMC disc is warped and thicker in the outer regions north of the LMC centre. Our findings may either be interpreted as a warped and flared disc in the LMC outskirts, or as evidence of a spheroidal halo component.
Keywords : stars: statistics Magellanic Clouds galaxies: stellar content Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
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Eduardo Balbinot, B. X. Santiago, L. Girardi, A. Pieres, L. N. da Costa, et al.. The LMC geometry and outer stellar populations from early DES data. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Oxford University Press (OUP): Policy P - Oxford Open Option A, 2015, 449, pp.1129-1145. ⟨10.1093/mnras/stv356⟩. ⟨insu-03644955⟩

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