Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-03-29
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 325 (2001) 792
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
12 pages, 11 Postscript figures. MNRAS, in press
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04503.x
Colour-magnitude diagrams are presented for the first time for L32, L38, K28 (L43), K44 (L68) and L116, which are clusters projected onto the outer parts of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The photometry was carried out in the Washington system $C$ and $T_1$ filters allowing the determination of ages by means of the magnitude difference between the red giant clump and the main sequence turnoff, and metallicities from the red giant branch locus. The clusters have ages in the range 2-6 Gyr, and metallicities between $-1.65<$ [Fe/H] $<-1.10$, increasing the sample of intermediate-age clusters in the SMC. L116, the outermost cluster projected onto the SMC, is a foreground cluster, and somewhat closer to us than the Large Magellanic Cloud. Our results, combined with those for other clusters in the literature, show epochs of sudden chemical enrichment in the age-metallicity plane, which favour a bursting star formation history as opposede to a continuous one for the SMC.
Bica Eduardo
Claria Juan J.
Geisler Doug
Piatti Andrés E.
Santos Joao F. C. Jr.
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