The stellar populations of the Milky Way satellites: the early Universe through the color-magnitude diagram

Gallart, Carme
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Astrophysics and Space Science Supplement, v. 277, p. 255-258 (2001).

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The Milky Way satellites offer the possibility of studying their star formation histories in great detail. Color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) reaching the old main-sequence turnoffs, allow a careful modelling of their stellar populations using synthetic CMDs, and spectroscopy of the brightest stars, provides a direct measurement of their metallicity. Here I present new wide field, old main sequence turnoff photometry of the LMC and Fornax, and briefly discuss preliminary results of a CaII triplet spectroscopy study of metallicities of individual stars in Fornax.
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