The Carina Project: II. Stellar Populations

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2003-03-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0303493v1

Astron.J. 126 (2003) 218

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

39 pages, 24 figures (PNG format). Accepted for publication on Astronomical Journal. A version with all figures included is av

Scientific paper

10.1086/375457

We present a new (V,B-V) Color-Magnitude Diagram (CMD) of the Carina dwarf spheroidal (dSph) that extends from the tip of the Red Giant Branch (RGB) down to about V=25 mag. Data were collected with the Wide Field Imager (WFI) available at 2.2m ESO/MPI telescope and cover an area of about 0.3 square degrees around the center of the galaxy. We confirm the occurrence of a substantial amount of old stars with ages around 11 Gyr, together with an intermediate-age population around 5 Gyr. Moreover, we also detected a new well-defined blue plume of young Main-Sequence (MS) stars with an age at most of the order of 1 Gyr. At odds with previous results available in the literature we found thatstars along the RGB of the old and of the intermediate-age stellar populationindicate a mean metallicity roughly equal to Z=0.0004 and a small dispersion around this value. We find evidence for a smooth spatial distribution of the "intermediate-age" stellar population, which appears more centrally concentrated than the oldest one.

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