Recovering the star formation rate in the solar neighborhood

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Cignoni, M. [1 ]
Degl'Innocenti, S. [1 ]
Moroni, P. G. Prada [1 ]
Shore, S. N. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Fis Enrico Fermi, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
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This paper develops a method for obtaining the star formation histories of a mixed, resolved population through the use of color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs). The method is applied to the derivation of the local star formation rate, analyzing the observations of the Hipparcos satellite through a comparison with synthetic CMDs computed for different star formation histories with an updated stellar evolution library. Parallax and photometric uncertainties are included explicitly and corrected using the Bayesian Richardson-Lucy algorithm. We find that the solar neighborhood star formation rate has a characteristic timescale for variation of about 6 Gyr, with a maximum activity close to 3 Gyr ago.
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