arXiv · astro-ph/0703222
The Star Formation History in a SMC field: IAC-star/IAC-pop at work
Abstract
We present a progress report of a project to study the quantitative star formation history (SFH) in different parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We use the information in [(B-R), R] color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs), which reach down to the oldest main-sequence turnoffs and allow us to retrieve the SFH in detail. We show the first results of the SFH in a SMC field located in the Southern direction (at $\thicksim$1 kpc from the SMC center). This field is particularly interesting because in spite of being located in a place in which the HI column density is very low, it still presents a recent enhancement of star formation.
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Noelia E. D. Noel, Antonio Aparicio, Carme Gallart, Sebastian L. Hidalgo, Edgardo Costa, Rene A. Mendez. 2007-03-09. The Star Formation History in a SMC field: IAC-star/IAC-pop at work. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921307008526
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