Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-08-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
27 pages with 10 figures. Accepted by the Astronomical Journal
Scientific paper
10.1086/345958
This is the first of a series of three papers devoted to the calibration of a few parameters of crucial importance in the modeling of the evolution of intermediate-mass stars, with special attention to the amount of convective core overshoot. To this end we acquired deep V and R photometry for three globular clusters of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), namely NGC 2173, SL 556 and NGC 2155, in the age interval 1-3 Gyr. In this first paper, we describe the aim of the project, the VLT observations and data reduction, and we make preliminary comparisons of the color-magnitude diagrams with both Padova and Yonsei-Yale isochrones. Two following papers in this series present the results of a detailed analysis of these data, independently carried out by members of the Yale and Padova stellar evolution groups. This allows us to compare both sets of models and discuss their main differences, as well as the systematic effects that they would have to the determination of the ages and metallicities of intermediate-age single stellar populations.
Bertelli Giampaolo
Chiosi Cesare
Demarque Pierre
Gallart Carme
Girardi Leo
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