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The Red Stellar Population in NGC 1569

The Red Stellar Population in NGC 1569

We present HST NICMOS photometry of the resolved stellar population in the dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569. The color-magnitude diagram (CMD) in the F110W and F160W photometric bands contains ∼2400 stars with a formal photometric error ≲0.1 mag down to mF110W ≈ 23.5 and mF160W ≈ 22.5. The fiducial photometry …