Discovery of a loose star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud
  We present results for an up-to-date uncatalogued star cluster projected
towards the Eastern side of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) outer disc. The
new object was discovered from a search of loose star cluster in the Magellanic
Clouds' (MCs) outskirts using kernel density estimators on Washington CT1 deep
images. Contrarily to what would be commonly expected, the star cluster
resulted to be a young object (log(t /yr) = 8.45) with a slightly subsolar
metal content (Z = 0.013) and a total mass of 650Mo. Its core, half-mass and
tidal radii also are within the frequent values of LMC star clusters. However,
the new star cluster is placed at the Small Magellanic Cloud distance and at
11.3 kpc from the LMC centre. We speculate with the possibility that it was
born in the inner body of the LMC and soon after expeled into the intergalactic
space during the recent Milky Way/MCs interaction. Nevertheless, radial
velocity and chemical abundance measurements are needed to further understand
its origin, as well as extensive search for loose star clusters in order to
constrain the effectiveness of star cluster scattering during galaxy
interactions.
