THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL SUPPLEMENT SERIES 104:71-79, 1996 May

             UBV PHOTOMETRY OF OB ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN SUPERBUBBLES
                         OF THE LARGE MAGELLANIC CLOUD

                                   M. S. OEY
         Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721;
                              oey@as.arizona.edu


                                   ABSTRACT

        This work presents UBV photometry of the stellar populations
     associated with seven superbubble nebulae and five classical H II
     regions in the Large Magellanic Cloud.  Although the nebular
     morphology of the superbubbles appears to be substantially evolved
     compared to the classical nebulae, the color-magnitude diagrams do not
     reveal any noticeable correlation between the resident stellar
     population and nebular morphology.  The photometry presented here will
     be used in a forthcoming paper to examine further the stellar content
     and dynamics of these superbubbles.

     Subject headings: H II regions -- ISM: bubbles -- Magellanic Clouds --
                       open clusters ans associations: general