A near-infrared survey of the N49 region around the Soft Gamma-Ray   Repeater 0526-66
  We report the results of a deep near-infrared survey with VLT/ISAAC of the environment of the supernova remnant N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which contains the soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0526-66. Two of the four confirmed SGRs are potentially associated with compact stellar clusters. We thus searched for a similar association of SGR 0526-66, and imaged a young stellar cluster at a projected distance of ~30 pc from the SGR. This constitutes the third cluster-SGR link, and lends support to scenarios in which SGR progenitors originate in young, dusty clusters. If confirmed, the cluster-SGR association constrains the age and thus the initial mass of SGR progenitors. 
S. Klose, A. A. Henden, U. Geppert, J. Greiner, H. H. Guetter, D. H.   Hartmann, C. Kouveliotou, C. B. Luginbuhl, B. Stecklu...