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• Spitzer SAGE Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud II: Evolved Stars and Infrared Color Magnitude Diagrams (Astro-PH)

About the Object	Object Name: Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC Object Type: Galaxy, Irregular/ Spiral Barred Position (J2000): RA: 05h18m48.00s Dec: 68d34m12.00s Distance: 50 kpc, or 163,000 light-years Constellation: Dorado and Mensa
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team Instrument: IRAC + MIPS Wavelength: IRAC-only image: 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), 5.8 and 8.0 (red); IRAC + MIPS: 3.6 (blue), 8.0 (green), and 24 (red) Exposure Date: IRAC: July 15- 26, 2005, and October 26- November 2, 2005; MIPS: July 27- August 2, 2005, and November 2-9, 2005 Exposure Time: IRAC: 43 seconds (HDR); MIPS: 60, 30 and 6 seconds for 24, 70 and 160 microns respectively Image Scale: 7.36 x 7.36 degrees Orientation: North is 27 deg CW from up Release Date: 2006/08/28
Observers	Margaret Meixner (STScI) Karl D. Gordon (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona) Barbara Whitney (SSI, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) Marilyn Meade (Univ. of Wisconsin) Brian Babler (Univ. of Wisconsin) Remy Indebetouw (Univ. of Virginia) Joseph L. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) Charles W. Engelbracht (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Bi-Qing For (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Karl Misselt (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Uma Vijh (STScI) Martin Cohen (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Claus Leitherer (STScI) Robert Blum (Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory, Spain) William Reach (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech) Jean-Philippe Bernard (Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Direction de la Recherche, France) Francois Boulanger (Astrophysique de Pari, Institute, France) Miwa Block (Steweard Observatory) Ed B. Churchwell (Univ. of Wisconsin) Jay A. Frogel (AURA) Yasuo Fukui (Nagoya University, Japan) Jay Gallagher (Univ. of Wisconsin) Varoujan Gorjian (JPL) Jason Harris (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Douglas Kelly (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Akiko Kawamura (Nagoya University, Japan) So Young Kim (Johns Hopkins Univ.) William B. Latter (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech) Suzanne Madden (Service d'Astrophysique CEA, France) Ciska Markwick-Kemper (Univ. of Virgina) Akira Mizuno (Nagoya University, Japan) Norikazu Mizuno (Nagoya University, Japan) Jeremy Mould (NOAO) Antonella Nota (STScI) M.S. Oey (University of Michigan) Knut Olsen (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Toshikazu Onishi (Nagoya University, Japan) Roberta Paladini (Univ. of California, Berkeley) Nino Panagia (STScI) Pablo Perez- Gonzalez (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.) Hiroshi Shibai (Nagoya University, Japan) Shuji Sato (Nagoya University, Japan) Marta Sewilo (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison) Linda Smith (University College London) Lister Staveley-Smith (Commonwealth Science and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia) A.G.G.M. Tielens (NASA AMES Research Center) Toshiya Ueta (URSA/NASA Ames Research Center) Schuyler Van Dyk (Spitzer Science Center, Caltech) Kevin Volk (Gemini Observatory) Michael Werner (JPL) Dennis Zaritsky (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Ariz.)

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