Dinámica de cúmulos estelares en la Nube Menor de Magallanes

Abstract

The dynamical evolution of star clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud is nowadays a conundrum which deserves particular attention. In this work, we address such an issue by performing numerical simulations of their orbital motions. In order to do that, we adopted a gravitational potential for the galaxy and the presently known spatial-age-metallicity distribution, and attained their birth places by computing their orbital motion sbackwards for an interval equals to their ages. We aim at investigating the impact on the metal abundance spatial distribution by considering their original positions instead of the present ones.