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Fig. 9

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The spatial distribution (top) of the different populations present within the central Magellanic Bridge (30° to 60°) from the 2MASS catalogue after the removal of Galactic foreground. The different symbols represent: background galaxies (crosses), known SMC sources (red stars), known Bridge objects (red squares), known Magellanic Cloud halo sources (red diamonds), other known sources (triangles) and new previously unpublished sources (blue plusses) from SIMBAD. The (J − Ks) vs. (Ks) CMD of unknown objects is also presented (bottom), with boxes overlaid as in Fig. 7.

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