@article {23776,
	title = {Discrete star formation events in the central bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud},
	volume = {489},
	year = {2019},
	month = {2019/11/1},
	pages = {5087 - 5097},
	abstract = {We present the results of the photometric analysis of a large part of the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Using the 6.5m Magellan Telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, we have acquired deep B and I images in four fields (0.44 deg each in diameter), yielding accurate photometry for 1068 893 stars down to 24th magnitude, with a spatial resolution of 0.20 arcsec per pixel. Colour-magnitude diagrams and (completeness-corrected) luminosity functions have been constructed, yielding significant new results that indicate at least two discrete star formation events over a period from 2.7 to 4 Gyr ago. Also, we have derived star formation rates as a function of look-back time and have found enhancements of SF between 4 and 6 Gyr and at younger ages.},
	keywords = {Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies, galaxies: evolution, galaxies: photometry, galaxies: star formation, Magellanic Clouds, techniques: photometric},
	isbn = {0035-8711},
	url = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.489.5087S},
	author = {Strantzalis, A. and Hatzidimitriou, D. and Zezas, A. and Antoniou, V. and Lianou, S. and Tsilia, S.}
}
