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SMC in space and time: a project to study the evolution of the prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2008

M. Tosi
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna Via Ranzani 1, I-40127, Bologna, Italy email: monica.tosi@oabo.inaf.it
J. Gallagher
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
E. Sabbi
Affiliation:
STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
K. Glatt
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, D Basel University, Basel, CH
E. K. Grebel
Affiliation:
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, D
C. Christian
Affiliation:
STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
M. Cignoni
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna Via Ranzani 1, I-40127, Bologna, Italy email: monica.tosi@oabo.inaf.it Bologna University, Bologna, I
G. Clementini
Affiliation:
INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna Via Ranzani 1, I-40127, Bologna, Italy email: monica.tosi@oabo.inaf.it
A. Cole
Affiliation:
University of Tasmania, AU
G. Da Costa
Affiliation:
Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, ANU, AU
D. Harbeck
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, USA
M. Marconi
Affiliation:
INAF - OA Capodimonte, Napoli, I
M. Meixner
Affiliation:
STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
A. Nota
Affiliation:
STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
M. Sirianni
Affiliation:
STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
T. Smecker-Hane
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Abstract

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We introduce the SMC in space and time, a large coordinated space and ground-based program to study star formation processes and history, as well as variable stars, structure, kinematics and chemical evolution of the whole SMC. Here, we present the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams (CMDs) resulting from HST/ACS photometry, aimed at deriving the star formation history (SFH) in six fields of the SMC. The fields are located in the central regions, in the stellar halo, and in the wing toward the LMC. The CMDs are very deep, well beyond the oldest Main Sequence Turn-Off, and will allow us to derive the SFH over the entire Hubble time.

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Contributed Papers
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2008

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