Bibcode
Noël, Noelia E. D.; Gallart, Carme; Aparicio, Antonio; Hidalgo, Sebastién L.; Carrera, Ricardo; Costa, Edgardo; Méndez, René A.
Bibliographical reference
Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, Proceedings of IAU Symposium #241. Edited by A. Vazdekis and R. F. Peletier. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp.305-309
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2007
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Description
We present deep ground-based {it B} and {it R} observations of 12
fields in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The resulting
color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) reach the oldest main-sequence (MS)
turnoff at M$_{R}$$ hicksim$3.5 and reveal the stellar population
differences between the part of the galaxy facing the Large Magellanic
Cloud (LMC) and an area on the opposite side. In the Southern part of
the galaxy, we found that there are still intermediate-age stars as far
as 4 kpc from the SMC center. The Chemical Enrichment History (CEH) in
one of our SMC fields is also presented.