Abstract
The outermost regions of the Large Magellanic Clouds (LMC) have recently been covered by Dark Energy Camera (DECam) Science Verification data, in preparation for the Dark Energy Survey (DES). Although the DES footprint misses the bar and main star forming regions of the LMC, the available data sample a large and continuous area of the LMC disk down to r simeq 24 at distances greater than 5 degrees from its center. This large surveyed region opened the possibility to study the outer LMC star formation history (SFH) with unprecedented detail. In this work we employ the partial models method (Gallart et al 1999; Javiel et al 2005) to recover the SFH and its spatial variations in the outskirts of the LMC from the observed colour-magnitude diagrams. We take the MW foreground stars into account by modelling them with TRILEGAL (Girardi et al. 2005). With this technique we were able to recover the spatial dependency of the LMC outer components SFH and estimate its extension as well as the inclination and depth of the LMC disk. As a byproduct of our analysis we assembled a catalog of new LMC stellar clusters.
