The correlations between the ellipticity and the age and mass of LMC globular clusters are examined and both are found to be weak. It is concluded that neither of these properties are mainly responsible for the observed differences in the LMC and Galactic globular cluster ellipticity distributions. Most importantly, age cannot be the primary factor in the LMC-Galaxy ellipticity differences, eve...

In a recent paper describing HST observations of Cepheids in the spiral galaxy NGC 4258, Newman et al. (2001) report that the revised calibrations and methods for the Key Project on the Extragalactic Distance Scale yield that the true distance modulus of this galaxy is μ0,4258 = 29.40±0.09 mag, corresponding to a metric distance of 7.6±0.3 Mpc. This Cepheid distance, which holds for 18.50 mag a...

Context. RR Lyrae stars (RRLS) belong to population II and are generally used as a tracer of the host galaxy halo. Aims. The surface as well as vertical distribution of RRLS in the inner Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) are studied to understand whether these stars are actually formed in the halo. Methods. RRLS identified by the OGLE III survey are used to estimate their number density distribution...

We report on an analysis of the gas and dust budget in the the interstellar medium (ISM) of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Recent observations from the Spitzer Space Telescope enable us to study the mid-infrared dust excess of asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the LMC. This is the first time we can quantitatively assess the gas and dust input from AGB stars over a complete galaxy, fully...

We present the properties of the central stars from a sample of 54 Planetary Nebulae (PNe) observed in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) with the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS). The Hubble Space Telescope’s spatial resolution allows us to resolve the central star from its nebula (and line-of-sight stars) at the distance of the LMC, eliminating the dependency on photoionizatio...

e15658 Background: Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis occurs in approximately 5% of patients with cancer. The most common cancers involving the leptomeninges are breast and lung cancer. However, gastric adenocarcinoma has been rarely reported with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC). METHODS We analyzed 54 cases of cytological confirmed gastric LMC at 4 institutions from 1994 to 2007. RESULTS Ma...

We describe a few recent microlensing results from the MA-CHO Collaboration. The aim of the MACHO Project was the identification and quantitative description of dark and luminous matter in the Milky Way using microlensing toward the Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) and the Galactic bulge. We start with a discussion of the Hubble Space Telescope follow-up observations of the microlensing events t...

I construct a near-IR star count map of the LMC and demonstrate, using the viewing angles derived in Paper I, that the LMC is intrinsically elongated. I argue that this is due to the tidal force from the Milky Way. The near-IR data from the 2MASS and DENIS surveys are ideally suited for studies of LMC structure, because of the large statistics and insensitivity to dust absorption. The survey da...

Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC), or neoplastic meningitis, occurs in about 5-20% of patients with metastatic cancer, depending on the type of the primary malignancy and kind of treatment received. The association of LMC with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a rare entity, and only two cases of papillary renal cell cancer with leptomeningeal metastasis have been reported. Leptomeningeal spread ...

We report on observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The LMC is clearly detected with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and for the first time the emission is spatially well resolved in gamma-rays. Our observations reveal the massive star forming region 30 Doradus as a bright source of gamma-ray emission in the LMC. The observations furthermore show tha...