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The Star Formation History in a SMC field: IAC-star/IAC-pop at work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2006

Noelia E. D. Noël ,
Antonio Aparicio ,
Carme Gallart ,
Sebastián L. Hidalgo ,
Edgardo Costa  and
René A. Méndez
Noelia E. D. Noël
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. 38200 La Laguna. Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain email: noelia@iac.es
Antonio Aparicio
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. 38200 La Laguna. Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain email: noelia@iac.es
Carme Gallart
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. 38200 La Laguna. Tenerife, Canary Islands. Spain email: noelia@iac.es
Sebastián L. Hidalgo
Affiliation:
University of Minnesota, Department of Astronomy, 116 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455
Edgardo Costa
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
René A. Méndez
Affiliation:
Departamento de Astronomía, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 36-D, Santiago, Chile
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Abstract

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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 ∼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.

Keywords

local group galaxies: individual (SMC) — galaxies: star formation history
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S241: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies , December 2006 , pp. 373 - 374
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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