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Gallart, Carme
Bibliographical reference
Astrophysics and Space Science Supplement, v. 277, p. 255-258 (2001).
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2001
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The Milky Way satellites offer the possibility of studying their star
formation histories in great detail. Color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs)
reaching the old main-sequence turnoffs, allow a careful modelling of
their stellar populations using synthetic CMDs, and spectroscopy of the
brightest stars, provides a direct measurement of their metallicity.
Here I present new wide field, old main sequence turnoff photometry of
the LMC and Fornax, and briefly discuss preliminary results of a CaII
triplet spectroscopy study of metallicities of individual stars in
Fornax.