Poster Title: Recovering Star Formation Histories of Galaxies from Resolved Stellar Populations: Possibilities and Limitations of the CMD Approach
Abstract: We present preliminary results of a detailed theoretical study of the specific possibilities and limitations of the colour magnitude diagram (CMD) approach to derive star formation histories (SFHs) of galaxies. Our evolutionary synthesis code has recently been extended to compute synthetic CMDs in various filter bands at any timestep. We have performed a set of simulations of galaxies with different SFHs and metallicities. By analysing relative differences between CMDs, we investigate to which extent different SFHs and metallicities can be discriminated as a function of lookback time.
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