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Comparing the old Stellar Population in Globulars and Dwarf Galaxies: The Cases of Phoenix and Leo A

Ulrich Hopp, Laura Greggio

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0209260

Abstract

Due to their star formation history (SFH), the stellar population in Dwarf Galaxies (DG) is likely to have a metallicity spread which is best traced by the morphology of the Red Giant Branch (RGB). We probe here a purely empirical approach aimed at estimating average metallicity (Z) and Z spread by comparing the Color-Magnitude Diagrams (CMD) of galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) with those of two DGs: Leo A (HST data) and Phoe (VLT Fors2 data).

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