Bibcode
Gallart, Carme; Lcid Team
Referencia bibliográfica
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.290-294
Fecha de publicación:
8
2007
Número de citas
10
Número de citas referidas
7
Descripción
The star formation history (SFH) of Local Group galaxies is a powerful
tool for studying their evolution, including chemical enrichment
histories and stellar population gradients, which in turn may shed light
on the role of reionization or Supernovae feedback in galaxy formation
and evolution. In particular, isolated dwarfs are ideal laboratories
since their evolution has not been complicated by the vicinity of giant
galaxies. In this paper, we present the project Local Cosmology from
Isolated Dwarfs (LCID), aimed at deriving detailed SFHs for a sample of
Local Group isolated dwarf galaxies. To accomplish this goal we have
collected, using the ACS on board the HST, color-magnitude diagrams
(CMD) reaching their oldest main sequence turnoff (V~28 or M_V~+3.5)
with good photometric accuracy. Some preliminary results from the CMDs
are shown and briefly discussed.