The large Magellanic Cloud stellar content with SMASH: I. Assessing the stability of the Magellanic spiral arms

TRL, CG, MM, FS and LM acknowledge financial support through grants (AEI/FEDER, UE) AYA201789076-P, AYA2016-77237-C3-1-P (RAVET project) and AYA2015-63810-P, as well as by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades (MCIU), through Juan de la Cierva - Formacion grant (FJCI-2016-30342) and the State Budget and by Consejeria de Economia, Industria, Comercio y Conocimiento of the Canary Islands Autonomous Community, through Regional Budget. TRL also acknowledges support from the Spanish Public State Employment Service (SEPE). Y.C. acknowledges support from NSF grant AST 1655677. SC acknowledges support from Premiale INAF "MITIC" and grant AYA201342781P from the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain, he has also been supported by INFN (Iniziativa specifica TAsP). M-RC acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No. 682115). SRM acknowledges support through NSF grant AST-1909497. DMD acknowledges support through grant AYA2016-81065-C2-2 and through the "Centre of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award for the Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (SEV-2017-0709) and from grant PGC2018-095049-B-C21. AM acknowledges financial support from FONDECYT Regular 1181797 and funding from the Max Planck Society through a Partner Group grant. R.R.M. acknowledges partial support from project BASAL AFB-170002 as well as FONDECYT project Nffi1170364. This research makes use of python (http://www.python.org); Matplotlib (Hunter 2007) and Astropy (Astropy Collaboration 2013, 2018). Based on observations at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO Prop. ID: 2013A-0411 and 2013B0440; PI: Nidever), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. This project used data obtained with the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), which was constructed by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) collaboration. Funding providers for the DES Projects can be found in https://www.darkenergysurvey.org/collaboration-and-sponsors/