Astrophysical: Local Group

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    The Pristine survey - XV. A CFHT ESPaDOnS view on the Milky Way halo and disc populations
    We present a one-dimensional, local thermodynamic equilibrium homogeneous analysis of 132 stars observed at high resolution with ESPaDOnS. This represents the...
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    The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. I. First Results and Description of the Program
    We present the first results of a ground-based program to determine the proper motion of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) relative to background quasars (QSO), being...
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    The Proper Motion of the Magellanic Clouds. II. New Results for Five Small Magellanic Cloud Fields
    We present new results from a ground-based program to determine the proper motion of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) relative to background quasars (QSOs), being...
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    The Sagittarius dwarf irregular galaxy (SagDIG): distance and star formation history
    The distance, star formation history and global properties of the Local Group dIrr galaxy SagDIG are derived based on an [I-(V-I)] colour-magnitude diagram of ~...
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    The Second Data Release of the Survey of the MAgellanic Stellar History (SMASH)
    The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds (LMC and SMC) are the largest satellite galaxies of the Milky Way and close enough to allow for a detailed exploration of...
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    The star formation and chemical evolution history of the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy
    We present deep photometry in the B, V and I filters from CTIO/MOSAIC for about 270 000 stars in the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy, out to a radius of rell ≈ 0...
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    The star formation and chemical evolution history of the sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxyâ
    We have combined deep photometry in the B, V and I bands from CTIO/MOSAIC of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy, going down to the oldest main sequence turn...
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    The star formation history and dust content in the far outer disc of M31
    We present a detailed analysis of two fields located 26 kpc (˜5 radial scalelengths) from the centre of M31 along the south-west semimajor axis of the disc. One...
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    The star formation history from resolved stellar populations. State of the art and future perspectives
    We present a new method to solve the star formation history (SFH) of a complex stellar population system from the analysis of the color-magnitude diagram (CMD)...