Bibcode
Hidalgo, Sebastian L.; Aparicio, Antonio; Gallart, Carme
Bibliographical reference
The Ages of Stars, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU Symposium, Volume 258, p. 245-252
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2009
Citations
4
Refereed citations
3
Description
We present a new method to solve for the star-formation history (SFH) of
a complex stellar population system from the analysis of the
color-magnitude diagram (CMD). The SFH is obtained in four steps: i)
computing a synthetic CMD, ii) simulating observational effects, iii)
parameterization and sampling of the synthetic and observed CMDs, and
iv) solving and averaging the solutions. The consistency and stability
of the method have been tested using a mock stellar population.
The method has been used to solve the SFH of a set of six isolated Local
Group dwarf galaxies observed with HST. The main goal is to probe the
effects of cosmological processes, such as reionization in the early
star formation, or the ability of SNe feedback to remove gas in small
halos, in dwarf galaxies free from environmental effects due to the
strong interaction with the host galaxy.