Date: 03.03.2026

Raphael Oliveira (OAUW,PL)

Evolution of Magellanic Clouds clusters from VISCACHA, DELVE-MC and future surveys

Abstract:
The Magellanic Clouds are the most massive satellites of the Milky Way and the closest interacting pair of dwarf galaxies. They constitute a unique laboratory for the study of galactic evolution and stellar populations in low-metallicity environments, hosting a large number of star clusters across a wide range of ages. Photometric and spectroscopic surveys are providing increasingly precise data for these systems, and future wide-field facilities such as the Rubin and Roman telescopes will further deepen our view of them. In this talk, I will compare some of these data and present recent results on the ages, metallicities, mass functions, and structural parameters of star clusters. Particular emphasis will be given to the Magellanic Bridge, a tidal structure likely formed ~200 Myr ago during the most recent interaction between the Clouds. As a continuation of my PhD research, I am now leading a collaboration between the VISCACHA and DELVE-MC surveys to extract the most information from the Bridge, starting with the recovery of new and known star clusters and characterisation of the field contamination. These results provide new constraints on the recent dynamical and chemical evolution of the system.