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Cambridge University Press, Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, S255(4), p. 381-386, 2008
DOI: 10.1017/s1743921308025118
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SMC in space and time: a project to study the evolution of the prototype interacting late-type dwarf galaxy
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G. Clementini,
A. Cole ,
G. Da Costa,
D. Harbeck,
M. Marconi,
M. Meixner,
A. Nota,
M. Sirianni
and other authors.
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Abstract
We introduce the SMC in space and time, a large coordinated space and ground-based program to study star formation processes and history, as well as variable stars, structure, kinematics and chemical evolution of the whole SMC. Here, we present the Colour-Magnitude Diagrams(CMDs) resulting from HST/ACS photometry, aimed at deriving the star formation history (SFH) in six fields of the SMC. The fields are located in the central regions, in the stellar halo, and in the wing toward the LMC. The CMDs are very deep, well beyond the oldest Main Sequence Turn-Off, and will allow us to derive the SFH over the entire Hubble time. ; Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, Conference Proceeding for IAU Symposium 255: Low-Metallicity Star Formaion: From the First Stars to Dwarf Galaxies