# 1 Introduction

## 1 Introduction

Cepheids and star clusters are very important objects for empirical testing many fundamental problems in astronomy. Since the period-luminosity relation for Cepheids has been discovered by Leavitt (1912) they became one of the most important sources of information about distances in the nearby Universe. Observations of Cepheids also provide empirical constraints on theory of stellar structure, evolution etc. On the other hand star clusters are ideal tracers of stellar evolution and independent source of information about distances, ages, chemical composition, interstellar absorption etc. of the galaxies where they reside.

Cepheids belonging to star clusters are especially worth detailed studies. For instance, due to well defined evolutionary phase they provide precise information on age, superior to that obtained with the standard procedure of isochrone fitting. They also may help in studies of cluster dynamics.

Unfortunately the number of Cepheids located in the regions of star clusters is still small in both the Magellanic Clouds and the Galaxy. Observations are highly inhomogeneous, obtained by many astronomers, using many different instruments. Microlensing surveys make it possible to select large number of variable stars, in particular those from the fields of star clusters. Following the list of 127 eclipsing systems in optical coincidence with star clusters from the SMC (Pietrzyński and Udalski 1999), in this paper we present Cepheids located in the regions of star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds.

## 2 Observational Data

The photometric data used in this paper were collected during the OGLE-II microlensing survey with the 1.3 m Warsaw telescope located at the Las Campanas Observatory, Chile, which is operated by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The telescope was equipped with $`2048\times 2048`$ CCD camera working in driftscan mode. Detailed description of the instrumental system and the OGLE-II project was presented by Udalski, Kubiak and Szymański (1997).

About 4.5 and 2.4 square degrees regions in the LMC and SMC, respectively, covering most of the bars of these galaxies were monitored regularly since January 1997 through the standard BVI filters. Coordinates of the observed fields and the schematic maps of the LMC and SMC with contours of observed fields can be found in Udalski et al. (1999c,d). Data reduction pipeline and data quality tests of the SMC photometry are described in Udalski et al. (1998). Quality of the LMC data is similar and it will be described with release of stellar maps of the LMC in the near future (Udalski et al. in preparation). In particular, accuracy of transformation to the standard system is about 0.01–0.02 mag for all BVI-bands.

## 3 Cepheids in the Magellanic Cloud Star Clusters

Tables 1 and 2 list Cepheids located in the close neighborhood of star clusters of the LMC and SMC, respectively. The lists were constructed based on Catalogs of Star Clusters from the LMC (Pietrzyński et al. 1999) and SMC (Pietrzyński et al. 1998) and Catalogs of Cepheids from the LMC and SMC (Udalski et al. 1999c,d).

Cluster Cepheids were extracted from the Catalog of Cepheids when the location of a given object on the sky was smaller than 1.5 radius from the center of a given cluster. Beside classical Cepheids listed in the Catalogs also double-mode and second overtone objects from the SMC (Udalski et al. 1999a,b) and LMC (Udalski et al. in preparation) were checked.

204 and 132 Cepheids in the LMC and SMC, respectively, satisfied our criterion. Basic parameters of these objects are given in Tables 1 and 2. First column is the cluster designation according to the OGLE scheme. Cross-identification of clusters with other catalogs can be found in Catalogs of Star Clusters. Star ID number (OGLE identification: field and number) and distance from the cluster center, measured in units of cluster radius are given in columns 2, 3 and 4. Periods, zero phases corresponding to maximum brightness, VI photometry, interstellar reddening and classification taken from the Catalogs of Cepheids (Udalski et al. 1999c,d) are presented in the following columns. FU, FO, BR and FA symbols in the last column indicate that a given object belongs to the classical Cepheids pulsating in the fundamental mode, first overtone mode, it is brighter than FO or fainter than FU, respectively. DM indicates double mode Cepheid while SO – second overtone object. For the sake of completeness we additionally included to the SMC list one Cepheid which is likely a NGC346 member. Large part of that cluster is located outside the OGLE-II fields and therefore it was not included in the Catalog of Star Clusters from the SMC.

## 4 Conclusions

We present lists of Cepheids located in the close neighborhood of star clusters from the 4.5 square degrees field of the LMC and 2.4 square degrees area of the SMC. Thus far, presented Cepheids constitute the most complete sample of such objects with homogeneous observational data and high statistical completeness. The sample is very well suited for further detailed studies. Results of analysis of these objects will be presented in separate papers.

Photometry of Cepheids and star clusters in the LMC and SMC is available from the OGLE Internet archive: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~ogle   
or its US mirror http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~ogle

Acknowledgements. The paper was partly supported by the KBN grants: 2P03D00814 to A. Udalski and 2P03D00617 to G. Pietrzyński. Partial support for the OGLE project was provided with the NSF grant AST-9820314 to B. Paczyński.

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