The star formation history from resolved stellar populations. State of the art and future perspectives

Hidalgo, S.; Aparicio, A.
Referencia bibliográfica

Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana, v.87, p.350 (2016)

Fecha de publicación:
2016
Número de autores
2
Número de autores del IAC
2
Número de citas
1
Número de citas referidas
1
Descripción
We present a new method to solve the star formation history (SFH) of a complex stellar population system from the analysis of the color-magnitude diagram (CMD). The SFH is obtained in four steps: i) computing a synthetic CMD, ii) simulating observational effects, iii) parametrization and sampling of the synthetic and observed CMDs, and iv) solving and averaging the solutions. The consistency and stability of the method have been tested using a mock stellar population. The method has been used to solve the SFH of a set of six isolated Local Group dwarf galaxies observed with HST. The main goal is to probe the effects of cosmological processes, such as the reionization in the early star formation or the ability of SNe feedback to remove gas in small halos, in dwarf galaxies free from environmental effects due to the strong interaction with the host galaxy.