J/AJ/127/1531 Star formation history of SMC (Harris+, 2004)
The star formation history of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Harris J., Zaritsky D.
<Astron. J., 127, 1531-1544 (2004)>
=2004AJ....127.1531H 2004AJ....127.1531H
ADC_Keywords: Magellanic Clouds ; Models, evolutionary
Keywords: galaxies: evolution - galaxies: individual (Small Magellanic Cloud) -
galaxies: stellar content - Magellanic Clouds
Abstract:
We present the spatially resolved star formation and chemical
enrichment history of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) across the
entire central 4°x4.5° area of the main body, based on UBVI
photometry from our Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey.
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table2.dat 86 8280 Star formation history of the SMC
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See also:
J/AJ/123/855 : Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: the SMC (Zaritsky+, 2002)
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 2 A2 --- Region Region identification
5 I1 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
7- 8 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
10 A1 --- DE- Sign of the declination (J2000)
11- 12 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
14- 15 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
17- 21 F5.3 [yr] Y-Age Age bin's young boundary
23- 28 F6.3 [yr] O-Age Age bin's old boundary
30- 34 I5 solMass/Myr SFR8 Best SFR with Z=0.008
36- 40 I5 solMass/Myr e_SFR8 Lower limit on SFR8
42- 46 I5 solMass/Myr E_SFR8 Upper limit on SFR8
48- 53 I6 solMass/Myr SFR4 Best SFR with Z=0.004
55- 60 I6 solMass/Myr e_SFR4 Lower limit on SFR4
62- 67 I6 solMass/Myr E_SFR4 Upper limit on SFR4
69- 73 I5 solMass/Myr SFR1 ? Best SFR with Z=0.001
75- 79 I5 solMass/Myr e_SFR1 ? Lower limit on SFR1
81- 85 I5 solMass/Myr E_SFR1 ? Upper limit on SFR1
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
(End) Greg Schwarz [AAS], Patricia Vannier [CDS] 07-May-2004