Old main-sequence turnoff photometry in the SMC: Star Formation History and Chemical Enrichment Law

Bibcode
2007IAUS..241..305N
DOI
10.1017/S1743921307008216
Noël, Noelia E. D.; Gallart, Carme; Aparicio, Antonio; Hidalgo, Sebastién L.; Carrera, Ricardo; Costa, Edgardo; Méndez, René A.
Bibliographical reference

Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #241. Edited by A. Vazdekis and R. F. Peletier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.305-309

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2007
Number of authors
7
IAC number of authors
0
Citations
1
Refereed citations
1
Description
We present deep ground-based {it B} and {it R} observations of 12 fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The resulting color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) reach the oldest main-sequence (MS) turnoff at M$_{R}$$ hicksim$3.5 and reveal the stellar population differences between the part of the galaxy facing the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and an area on the opposite side. In the Southern part of the galaxy, we found that there are still intermediate-age stars as far as 4 kpc from the SMC center. The Chemical Enrichment History (CEH) in one of our SMC fields is also presented.
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Non-refereed

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