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

Noël, Noelia E. D.; Aparicio, Antonio; Gallart, Carme; Hidalgo, Sebastién L.; 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.373-374

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2007
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Description
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 $ hicksim$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.