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Chemical Abundance and Age in the Magellanic Clouds; with Special Reference to SN 1987A

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Evidence relating to the chemical abundance of objects of known age in the Magellanic Clouds is reviewed. For ages < 2 × 108 years the mean [Fe/H] values are −0.2 (LMC) and −0.5 (SMC) where [Fe/H] is the difference between Cloud objects and similar objects in the solar neighbourhood. C and N are more deficient than this in Cloud H II regions. The relevance of these results for models for SN 1987A in the LMC is noted and recent work on this supernova is summarized. In the mean, the results show a roughly exponential increase in metal abundance with time over the last ~ 1010 years in both Clouds. The blue globular cluster NGC 330 (age 7 × 106 years, [Fe/H] = −1.4) is significantly more metal deficient than other young SMC objects suggesting it may have formed remote from them, perhaps in the Magellanic Stream.

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Feast, M.W. (1989). Chemical Abundance and Age in the Magellanic Clouds; with Special Reference to SN 1987A. In: Corwin, H.G., Bottinelli, L. (eds) The World of Galaxies. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9356-6_16

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