The Chemical Enrichment History of the Small Magellanic Cloud and Its Gradients

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2008-06-27

arxiv.org/abs/0806.4465v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

30 pages, 13 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomical Journal

Scientific paper

10.1088/0004-6256/136/3/1039

We present stellar metallicities derived from Ca II triplet spectroscopy in over 350 red giant branch stars in 13 fields distributed in different positions in the SMC, ranging from $\sim$1\arcdeg\@ to $\sim$4\arcdeg\@ from its center. In the innermost fields the average metallicity is [Fe/H] $\sim -1$. This value decreases when we move away towards outermost regions. This is the first detection of a metallicity gradient in this galaxy. We show that the metallicity gradient is related to an age gradient, in the sense that more metal-rich stars, which are also younger, are concentrated in the central regions of the galaxy.

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