Astrophysical properties of star fields in the Large Magellanic Cloud

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06/2012
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Asociación Argentina de Astronomía
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Presentamos resultados obtenidos a partir de datos CCD en el sistema fotom´etrico de Washington de ∼ 5.5 millones de estrellas distribuidas en toda la Nube Mayor de Magallanes (NMM). La calidad y performance de los datos fueron rigurosamente examinados a partir de numerosas pruebas de completitud con estrellas artificiales en todo el conjunto de im´agenes mosaico, de modo que diagramas colormagnitud (DCM) fueron precisamente confeccionados. A partir de los DCM de Hess de las estrellas del campo, identificamos los picos del turnoff de la secuencia principal y del clump de las gigantes rojas para datar la sub-poblaci´on m´as dominante (o poblaci´on representativa) en la composici´on de poblaciones estelares, mientras que sus metalicidades fueron estimadas a partir de la ubicaci´on de la rama de las gigantes rojas m´as poblada. La dispersi´on asociada con las edades y metalicidades medias resulta en general una estimaci´on satisfactoria de la dispersi´on edad/metalicidad, aunque algunos pocos subcampos representativos individuales tienen una ligeramenta mayor dispersi´on edad/metalicidad. Hasta donde estamos seguros, esta mayor dispersi´on en edad no afecta posteriores an´alisis. Una versi´on detallada de este trabajo puede verse en Piatti et al. (2012, AJ, 144, 100).
We present CCD Washington CT1 photometry for the unprecedented database of some 5.5 million of stars distributed throughout the entire Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) main body. The quality and performance of the data were rigurously examined from extensive completeness artificial star tests over the whole mosaic image data set, so that field colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) were accurately produced. From the star field CMD Hess diagrams, we identified the peaks at the main-sequence turnoff and red clump locations to date the most dominant sub-population (or ”representative” population) in the stellar population mix, while their metallicities were estimated from the CMD location of the most populous red giant branch track. The dispersion associated with the mean ages and metallicities result in general a satisfactory estimate of the age/metallicity spread, although some few individual representative subfields have slightly larger age/metallicity spread. As far as we are aware, these larger age spread do not affect the subsequent analysis. A detailed version of this work can be seen in Piatti et al. (2012, AJ, 144, 100).
We present CCD Washington CT1 photometry for the unprecedented database of some 5.5 million of stars distributed throughout the entire Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) main body. The quality and performance of the data were rigurously examined from extensive completeness artificial star tests over the whole mosaic image data set, so that field colour-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) were accurately produced. From the star field CMD Hess diagrams, we identified the peaks at the main-sequence turnoff and red clump locations to date the most dominant sub-population (or ”representative” population) in the stellar population mix, while their metallicities were estimated from the CMD location of the most populous red giant branch track. The dispersion associated with the mean ages and metallicities result in general a satisfactory estimate of the age/metallicity spread, although some few individual representative subfields have slightly larger age/metallicity spread. As far as we are aware, these larger age spread do not affect the subsequent analysis. A detailed version of this work can be seen in Piatti et al. (2012, AJ, 144, 100).
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