Determinación de edades de cúmulos estelares de la Nube Menor de %Magallanes a partir del parámetro

The morphological age index has been and is still being used to estimate ages of galactic and extragalactic star clusters. Using a sample of 15 clusters in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) observed with the Very Large Telescope (Chile) in the and passbands; we compare age determinations performed by measuring and using calibrations of cc94 cc94 and s04 s04; hereafter CC94 and S04; respectively. We find that S04 calibration leads to older ages than that of CC94; this difference increasing with age. We also show that ages obtained via CC94 show better agreement with those derived by gla08b gla08b; based on data obtained with the HST. The ages of 6 clusters have been significantly underestimated in previous studies in which comparatively small telescopes have been used. FULL TEXT IN SPANISH