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Strömgren Photometry of Field Red Giants in the LMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Andrew A. Cole
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5534 Sterling Hall, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, WI, 53706, USA
John S. Gallagher
Affiliation:
Astronomy Dept., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 5534 Sterling Hall, 475 N. Charter St., Madison, WI, 53706, USA
Tammy A. Smecker-Hane
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, 4129 Reines Hall, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

Abstract

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We present here preliminary results of our program to obtain rough abundance estimates for > 104 red giant branch and red clump stars in four fields of the LMC. The derived abundance distributions will be a strong constraint on models of the LMC's star-formation history based on field star color-magnitude diagrams.

Type
Part 5. Stellar Populations and Surveys
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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