scholarly journals Stellar Content and Recent Star Formation History of the Local Group Dwarf Irregular Galaxy IC 1613

2007 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 1124-1132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edouard J. Bernard ◽  
Antonio Aparicio ◽  
Carme Gallart ◽  
Carmen P. Padilla-Torres ◽  
Maurizio Panniello
1999 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
pp. 2245-2261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carme Gallart ◽  
Wendy L. Freedman ◽  
Antonio Aparicio ◽  
Giampaolo Bertelli ◽  
Cesare Chiosi

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (S262) ◽  
pp. 353-354
Author(s):  
Enrico V. Held ◽  
Eline Tolstoy ◽  
Luca Rizzi ◽  
Mary Cesetti ◽  
Andrew A. Cole ◽  
...  

AbstractWe present the first results of a comprehensive HST study of the star-formation history of Fornax dSph, based on WFPC2 imaging of 7 Fornax fields. Our observations reach the oldest main-sequence turnoffs, allowing us to address fundamental questions of dwarf galaxy evolution, such as the spatial variations in the stellar content, and whether the old stellar population is made up of stars formed in a very early burst or the result of a more continuous star formation.


2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (S303) ◽  
pp. 252-253
Author(s):  
Francisco Najarro ◽  
Diego de la Fuente ◽  
Tom R. Geballe ◽  
Don F. Figer

AbstractThe Galactic center (GC) region hosts three of the most massive resolved young clusters in the Local Group and constitutes a test bed for studying the star formation history of the region and inferring the possibility of a top-heavy scenario. Further, recent detection of a large number of apparently isolated massive stars within the inner 80 pc of the Galactic center has raised fundamental questions regarding massive star formation in a such a dense and harsh environment. Noting that most of the isolated massive stars have spectral analogs in the Quintuplet cluster, we have undertaken a combined analysis of the infrared spectra of both selected Quintuplet stars and the isolated objects using Gemini spectroscopy. We present preliminary results, aiming at α-elements versus iron abundances, stellar properties, ages and radial velocities which will differentiate the top-heavy and star-formation scenarios.


2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (S329) ◽  
pp. 287-291
Author(s):  
Francisco Najarro ◽  
Diego de la Fuente ◽  
Tom R. Geballe ◽  
Don F. Figer ◽  
D. John Hillier

AbstractWe present results from our ongoing infrared spectroscopic studies of the massive stellar content at the Center of the Milky Way. This region hosts a large number of apparently isolated massive stars as well as three of the most massive resolved young clusters in the Local Group. Our survey seeks to infer the presence of a possible top-heavy recent star formation history and to test massive star formation channels: clusters vs isolation.


1996 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 2596 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Gallart ◽  
A. Aparicio ◽  
G. Bertelli ◽  
C. Chiosi

1999 ◽  
Vol 192 ◽  
pp. 464-468
Author(s):  
R.E. Schulte-Ladbeck ◽  
U. Hopp ◽  
M. M. Crone

There are no examples of Blue Compact Dwarf (BCD) galaxies known within the Local Group (LG). Multicolor HST/WFPC2 observations of the nearby BCD VII Zw 403 (= UGC 6456) now resolve single stars with the quality (in terms of limiting magnitude and completeness) previously achieved for LG dwarfs from the ground. We use the MI, V - I color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of several LG dwarfs as templates to assess the stellar content and star-formation history (SFH) of the BCD VII Zw 403. This is the first BCD for which a clear spatial segregation of the resolved stellar content into a “core-halo” structure is detected: active star formation is observed in the central region of VII Zw 403, while in “Baade's red sheet”, this young population is strikingly absent. If BCD halos are home to dominant ancient stellar populations, then the fossil record conflicts with delayed-format ion scenarios for dwarfs. We present a sketch of the SFH in the core and halo of VII Zw 403.


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