Reconstructing the Magellanic Clouds Star Formation History from a Digital UBVI Photometric Survey

AST-9619576从数字化的紫外光光度测量重建麦哲伦星云的恒星形成历史。扎里茨基博士将研究麦哲伦星云的全球和空间分辨率恒星形成历史，以便更好地了解星系的总体演化，特别是云的详细演化。这项工作将产生对麦哲伦星云的第一次大规模UBVI数字测量，以连接基于对单个恒星的光度测量和那些利用星系综合性质的星系演化研究。这项研究的结果有望为星系演化的研究提供一个根本性的进步，并提供检验演化模型所需的经验约束。=

AST-9619576 Reconstructing the Magellanic Clouds Star Formation History from a Digital UBVI Photometric Survey. Dr. Zaritsky will investigate the global and spatially resolved star formation history of the Magellanic Clouds in order to better understand the evolution of galaxies in general and the detailed evolution of the Clouds in particular. This work will produce the first large-scale UBVI digital survey of the Magellanic Clouds to bridge studies of galaxy evolution that are based on photometry of individual stars and those that utilize integrated properties of galaxies. The results of this research are expected to provide a fundamental advance in the study of galaxy evolution and provide the empirical constraints necessary to test evolutionary models. =====================================