Bibcode
Figueras, F.; Hidalgo, S. L.; Czekaj, M.; Aparicio, A.; Carrasco, J. M.; Gallart, C.; Jordi, C.; Robin, A. C.
Referencia bibliográfica
Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII, Proceedings of the X Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA), held in Valencia, July 9 - 13, 2012, Eds.: J.C. Guirado, L.M. Lara, V. Quilis, and J. Gorgas., pp.549-554
Fecha de publicación:
5
2013
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Descripción
A new tool is being developed to derive the star formation and chemical
enrichment history of the galactic disc through comparison of future
Gaia data with synthetic color magnitude diagrams. First steps are being
conducted joining two powerful algorithms: IAC-pop/MinnIAC, a code that
has widely and very successfully being applied to external galaxies, and
the new version of the Besançon Galaxy Model, which allows a good
control of the Initial Mass Function, the Star Formation History and the
chemical enrichment. A first tuning of these algorithms to the main
characteristics of the Gaia data is described, emphasizing the role of
the accurate parallaxes, the astrometric and photometric uncertainties
and the Gaia observational constraints of the Gaia data. Preliminary
tests demonstrate that the methodology proposed here has huge
capabilities, although ingredients such as the stellar evolutionary
models are critical in the process. The strategy to incorporate higher
complexity in the process is discussed.