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Reconstructing the Star Formation History of the Magellanic Clouds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Jason Harris ,
Dennis Zaritsky ,
Eva K. Grebel  and
Ian Thompson
Jason Harris
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064
Dennis Zaritsky
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064
Eva K. Grebel
Affiliation:
UCO/Lick Observatory and Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064
Ian Thompson
Affiliation:
Observatories of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, 813 Santa Barbara Street, Pasadena, California 91101

Abstract

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We are developing an algorithm to determine the star formation history (SFH) of a mixed stellar population. We will apply the algorithm to hundreds of regions in our Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey data and reconstruct the spatially resolved star formation history of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). In this paper, we demonstrate the algorithm on a typical region in the LMC, focussing on the obstacles and challenges facing us in attempting to reliably extract the SFH from photometric data.

Type
Part 2: The Database
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 192: The Stellar Content of Local Group Galaxies , 1999 , pp. 72 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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