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1994PASP..106..632E - Publ. Astron. Soc. Pac., 106, 632-641 (1994/June-0)

HST imaging of the Large Magellanic Cloud : the field-star population near 30 Doradus.

ELSON R.A., FORBES D.A. and GILMORE G.F.

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We present deep color-magnitude diagrams for two fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud, located about 6 arcminutes from 30 Doradus. The data are from images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera, as part of the Medium Deep Survey Key Project. We describe a procedure for measuring stellar magnitudes in relatively crowded HST images based on aperture corrections. This procedure is used to obtain color-magnitude diagrams containing a total of ∼7200 stars with 18 < V < 24. The color-magnitude diagrams shows a well populated main-sequence, and a pronounced giant branch concentrated at V ∼ 20. There is tentative evidence for a population of low metallicity main-sequence stars, which may confirm the suggestion that the LMC has, like spiral galaxies, a metal-poor, spheroidal component.

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