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We have created an estimated metallicity map of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) using the Magellanic Cloud Photometric Survey (MCPS) and Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE III) photometric data. This is a first of its kind map of metallicity up to a radius of ∼2.5°. We identify the Red Giant Branch (RGB) in the V, (V − I) colour–magnitude diagrams of small sub-regions of varying sizes in both data sets. We use the slope of the RGB as an indicator of the average metallicity of a sub-region and calibrate the RGB slope to metallicity using available spectroscopic data for selected sub-regions. The average metallicity of the SMC is found to be [Fe/H] = −0.94 dex (σ[Fe/H] = 0.09) from OGLE III and [Fe/H] = −0.95 dex (σ[Fe/H] = 0.08) from MCPS. We confirm a shallow but significant metallicity gradient within the inner SMC up to a radius of 2.5° (−0.045 ± 0.004 to −0.067 ± 0.006 dex deg−1).

Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Choudhury, Sidratul and Subramaniam, A and Cole, AA and Sohn, Y-J
Keywords:	Magellanic Clouds, galaxies- abundances, color-magnitude diagrams, chemical evolution, local group, Hertzsprung-Russell, color-magnitude diagrams
Journal or Publication Title:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing Ltd
ISSN:	0035-8711
DOI / ID Number:	10.1093/mnras/sty087
Copyright Information:	Copyright 2018 The Authors. This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©:2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
Related URLs:	Google Scholar: Cole, AA UTAS Profile: Cole, AA
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