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The stellar populations of local dwarfs

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Recent progress in our knowledge of stellar populations in local dwarf spheroidal galaxies is briefly discussed. A few results are summarized including wide field observations of stellar populations and their spatial variations, studies of AGB and variable stars, extension to near-infrared wavelengths, and the interpretation effort based on synthetic color-magnitude diagrams and chemical evolution models.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0506197,
  title  = {The stellar populations of local dwarfs},
  author = {Enrico V. Held},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0506197},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

6 pages, 1 figure, invited talk to appear in the proceedings of the IAUC198 Coll. "Near-Field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies", H. Jerjen & B. Binggeli (eds.)