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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 313, Issue 2, Pages 281-290Publisher
BLACKWELL SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2000.03197.x
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Magellanic Clouds; galaxies : stellar content
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Ground-based UBV photometry of two fields in the northern disc of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is presented. A distance modulus of (m-M)(0) = 18.41 +/- 0.04 and an extinction of A(V) = 0.30 +/- 0.05 have been calculated for these fields. The measurable star formation history of the LMC began no more than 12 Gyr ago with a strong star-forming episode with [Fe/H] = -1.63 +/- 0.10 that accounted for approximately half (by mass) of the total star formation of the LMC in the first 3 Gyr. The data do not give accurate star formation rates during intermediate ages, but there appears to have been a recent increase in the star formation rate in these fields, beginning approximately 2.5 Gyr ago, with the current metallicity in the region being [Fe/H] = -0.38 +/- 0.10. The two fields have had very similar star formation rates until 200 Myr ago, at which point one shows a large increase.
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