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IZw18: Ideal Laboratory for the Study of the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies

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The star-formation (SF) history inferred for IZw18 from its optical color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) has been used to constrain a chemical evolution model and trace back its properties over the whole galaxy lifetime.

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  1. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, USA

    Alessandra Aloisi

  2. Dipartimento di Astronomia di Trieste, Trieste, Italy

    Francesca Matteucci

  3. Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Monica Tosi

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  1. Alessandra Aloisi
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  1. Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia (CSIC), Granada, Spain

    José M. Vílchez  & Enrique Pérez  & 

  2. Observatoire de Paris-Meudon (DAEC), Meudon, France

    Grażyna Stasińska

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Aloisi, A., Matteucci, F., Tosi, M. (2001). IZw18: Ideal Laboratory for the Study of the Evolution of Dwarf Irregular Galaxies. In: Vílchez, J.M., Stasińska, G., Pérez, E. (eds) The Evolution of Galaxies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3313-7_70

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