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Photometric metallicity map of the Small Magellanic Cloud

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posted on 2023-05-19, 23:40 authored by Choudhury, S, Subramaniam, A, Andrew ColeAndrew Cole, Sohn, Y-J

We have created an estimated metallicity map of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS) and Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) photometric data. This is a first of its kind map of metallicity up to a radius of ∼2.5°. We identify the Red Giant Branch (RGB) in the V, (V − I) colour–magnitude diagrams of small sub-regions of varying sizes in both data sets. We use the slope of the RGB as an indicator of the average metallicity of a sub-region and calibrate the RGB slope to metallicity using available spectroscopic data for selected sub-regions. The average metallicity of the SMC is found to be [Fe/H] = −0.94 dex (σ[Fe/H] = 0.09) from OGLE III and [Fe/H] = −0.95 dex (σ[Fe/H] = 0.08) from MCPS. We confirm a shallow but significant metallicity gradient within the inner SMC up to a radius of 2.5° (−0.045 ± 0.004 to −0.067 ± 0.006 dex deg−1).

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Publication title

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volume

475

Issue

4

Pagination

4279-4297

ISSN

0035-8711

Department/School

School of Natural Sciences

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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9600 Garsington Rd, Oxford, England, Oxon, Ox4 2Dg

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Copyright 2018 The Authors. This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©:2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

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