<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Strantzalis, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hatzidimitriou, D.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zezas, A.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Antoniou, V.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lianou, S.</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tsilia, S.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Discrete star formation events in the central bar of the Small Magellanic Cloud</style></title><short-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society</style></short-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">galaxies: evolution</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">galaxies: photometry</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">galaxies: star formation</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Magellanic Clouds</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">techniques: photometric</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2019/11/1</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019MNRAS.489.5087S</style></url></web-urls></urls><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">489</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5087 - 5097</style></pages><isbn><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">0035-8711</style></isbn><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">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.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>