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ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 390, Issue 3, Pages 917-929Publisher
E D P SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20020334
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methods : statistical; stars : formation; stars : luminosity function, mass function; galaxy : formation
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An inverse method is developed to determine the star formation history, the age-metallicity relation, and the IMF slope from a colour-magnitude diagram. The method is applied to the Hipparcos HR diagram. We found that the thin disk of our Galaxy shows a peak of stellar formation 1.6 Gyr ago. The stars close to the Sun have a solar metallicity and a mean IMF index equal to 3.2. However, the model and the evolutionary tracks do not correctly reproduce the horizontal giant branch.
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