Seminar on the star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds

Dr. Carme Gallart, the Formation and Evolution of Galaxies research line leader at the IAC and member of the Severo Ochoa Coordination Commitee, will give a regular seminar on 2014 June 5th entitled The star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds.

Start date: 5 Jun, 2014 - 10:30
End date: 5 Jun, 2014 - 12:00
Location: Aula, IAC Headquarters, Tenerife.
Organizer: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias

Abstract:

The Magellanic Clouds are the closest star forming galaxies, and their star formation histories can be derived in great details from color- magnitude diagrams reaching the oldest main sequence turnoffs. In the last several years, we have been conducting a wide research program on the Magellanic Clouds, including both photometry and spectroscopy, and have analysed the star formation history across both the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds. This has revealed the nature of the stellar population gradients of these galaxies, as well as signatures that can possibly be related to their interaction history, among them and with the Milky Way.