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Monelli, M.; Stringfellow, G. S.; Gallart, C.; Besla, G.; Majewski, S. R.; Kaleida, C. C.; Conn, B.; Olszewski, E. W.; Munoz, R.; Kunder, A. M.; Walker, A. R.; Saha, A.; Gruendl, R. A.; Blum, R. D.; Olsen, Knut A.; Nidever, D. L.; Monachesi, A.; Vivas, K.; de Boer, T.; Cioni, M.; Bell, E. F.; Noel, N.; Jin, S.; Kim, H.; Van Der Marel, R. P.; Martin, N.; Zaritsky, D. F.; Chu, Y.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #223, #254.44
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2014
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Description
We report on early pilot program results and progress made in the Survey
of the Magellanic Stellar History (SMASH). SMASH is an NOAO community
survey that is using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) to map a 2400 deg^2
area (at 20% filling factor, or 480 deg^2 total) of the Magellanic
Clouds and their periphery in ugriz. With depths of gri 24 and 23,
SMASH will: (1) map the stellar periphery of the Clouds with old main
sequence turnoff stars to a surface brightness limit of
35mag/arcsec^2,(2) identify the stellar component of the Magellanic
Stream and Leading Arm for the first time, if they exist, and (3) derive
spatially-resolved star formation histories covering all ages out to
large radius from the Cloud centers. Combined with the Dark Energy
Survey, SMASH will explore a vast area for hidden Magellanic Cloud
populations, providing new insight into the complex and dramatic history
of these two iconic dwarf galaxies.