Astronomy:MCELS (Magellanic Cloud Emission-line Survey)

The Magellanic Cloud Emission Line Survey (MCELS) is a joint project of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (Chile ) and the University of Michigan using the CTIO Curtis/Schmidt Telescope. The main goal of the project is to trace the ionized gas in the Magellanic Clouds using narrow-band filters ([S II], Hα and [O III]). Those emission lines are produced by different astrophysical objects and processes. The first public catalog and official publication of the MCELS survey is: Pellegrini et al. 2012: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012ApJ...755...40P/abstract

Scientific Motivation

To investigate the physical properties of the interstellar medium of these galaxies.

External links

• MCELS web site
• Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory (CTIO)
• Astronomy Department, University of Illinois at Urbana