I summarize Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) observations of interstellar O vi absorption towards 12 early-type stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the closest disk galaxy to the Milky Way. LMC O vi is seen towards all 12 stars with properties (average column densities, kinematics) very similar to those of the Milky Way halo, even though O/H in the LMC is lower by a factor o...

High resolution ultraviolet spectra with HST-GHRS of two stars in the direction of the supergiant shell LMC 4 unambiguously show absorption by substantial quantities of C IV gas at velocities near the the sys-temic velocity of the LMC. In combination with the detection of diffuse X-rays from the LMC 4 by ROSAT and other supporting data, this demonstrates that the interior of LMC 4 is filled wit...

We present the analysis of an approximately 3 year long Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) monitoring campaign of the canonical soft state black hole candidates LMC X-1 and LMC X-3. In agreement with previous observations, we find that the spectra of both sources can be well-described by the sum of a multi-temperature disk blackbody and a power law. In contrast to LMC X-1, which does not exhibi...

We present results from observations of persistent black hole candidates with the High Energy Transmission Gratings aboard the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The sources include LMC X-1, LMC X-3, GRS 1758-258, and Cyg X-1. Along with the published results on 1E1740.7-2942, we have completed a high-resolution spectroscopic survey of such systems. The observed X-ray spectra of LMC X1 and LMC X-3 show...

I discuss two hypotheses that might explain LMC microlensing: the Halo stellar remnant lensing hypothesis and the unvirialized LMC lensing hypothesis. I show that white dwarfs cannot contribute substantially to the cosmic baryon budget; they are strongly constrained by chemical evolution and background light measurements. Although there have been some claims of direct optical detections of whit...

Internal auditory canal (IAC) metastasis due to leptomeningeal carcinomatosis (LMC) from gastric cancer (GC) has rarely been reported. Early manifestation of symptoms, such as hearing loss, vertigo and facial paralysis, in cases of IAC metastasis due to LMC may facilitate the early detection of brain metastasis. To the best of our knowledge, the present study is the first to report IAC metastas...

In this paper we analyze the behavior of Galactic, LMC and SMC Cepheids in terms of period-color (PC) and amplitude-color (AC) diagrams at the phases of maximum, mean and minimum light. We find very different behavior between Galactic and Magellanic Cloud Cepheids. Motivated by the recent report of a break in LMC PC relations at 10 days (Tammann et al. 2002), we use the F-statistical test to ex...

We present the discovery of eight new radio pulsars located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Five of these pulsars were found from reprocessing the Parkes Multibeam Survey of the Magellanic Clouds, while the remaining three were from an ongoing new survey at Parkes with a high-resolution data acquisition system. It is possible that these pulsars were missed in the earlier processing due to ...

ABSTRACT We examine whether the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is currently losing its stellar halo to Milky Way (MW) tides. present a live N-body model for ongoing MW–LMC interaction that predicts prominent stream of stars tidally stripped from progenitor LMC. use this define strategy search material in kinematic space. Of available tracers, we conclude samples RR Lyrae provide highest density t...