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Title: | The VMC survey - XXXI: The spatially resolved star formation history of the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud | Authors: | RUBELE, STEFANO PASTORELLI, GIADA GIRARDI, Leo Alberto Cioni, Maria-Rosa L. ZAGGIA, Simone Marigo, Paola Bekki, Kenji BRESSAN, Alessandro CLEMENTINI, Gisella de Grijs, Richard Emerson, Jim Groenewegen, Martin A. T. Ivanov, Valentin D. Muraveva, Tatiana NANNI, AMBRA Oliveira, Joana M. RIPEPI, Vincenzo Sun, Ning-Chen van Loon, Jacco Th |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Journal: | MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | Number: | 478 | Issue: | 4 | First Page: | 5017 | Abstract: | We recover the spatially resolved star formation history across the entire main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), using 14 deep tile images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC) in the YJK<SUB>s</SUB> filters. The analysis is performed on 168 subregions of size 0.143 deg<SUP>2</SUP> covering a total contiguous area of 23.57 deg<SUP>2</SUP>. We apply a colour-magnitude diagram (CMD) reconstruction method that returns the best-fitting star formation rate SFR(t), age-metallicity relation, distance and mean reddening, together with their confidence intervals, for each subregion. With respect to previous analyses, we use a far larger set of the VMC data, updated stellar models, and fit the two available CMDs (Y - K<SUB>s</SUB> versus K<SUB>s</SUB> and J - K<SUB>s</SUB> versus K<SUB>s</SUB>) independently. The results allow us to derive a more complete and more reliable picture of how the mean distances, extinction values, star formation rate, and metallicities vary across the SMC, and provide a better description of the populations that form its Bar and Wing. We conclude that the SMC has formed a total mass of (5.31 ± 0.05) × 10<SUP>8</SUP> M<SUB>⊙</SUB> in stars over its lifetime. About two-thirds of this mass is expected to be still locked in stars and stellar remnants. 50 per cent of the mass was formed prior to an age of 6.3 Gyr, and 80 per cent was formed between 8 and 3.5 Gyr ago. We also illustrate the likely distribution of stellar ages and metallicities in different parts of the CMD, to aid the interpretation of data from future astrometric and spectroscopic surveys of the SMC. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/30870 | URL: | http://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04516v1 https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/478/4/5017/5004863 |
ISSN: | 0035-8711 | DOI: | 10.1093/mnras/sty1279 | Bibcode ADS: | 2018MNRAS.478.5017R | Fulltext: | open |
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