Speaker
Elena Sacchi
(Bologna University / INAF)
Description
The synthetic Color-Magnitude Diagram technique is a great tool to explore the detailed star formation history (SFH) of nearby galaxies and refine stellar evolution models by comparing them with the data. Within this framework, I will discuss the results obtained for galaxies of different morphological type which are part of the HST Legacy ExtraGalactic UV Survey (LEGUS), whose aim is to investigate and connect the different scales of star formation, from young stellar clusters to local Universe galaxies. Our targets were studied both in the UV and optical bands, in order to recover their SFH from very recent to older epochs and to understand whether and how the star formation process may depend on the morphological, dynamical and environmental properties of the galaxies.
Primary author
Elena Sacchi
(Bologna University / INAF)
