2026-04-30T13:27:31Zivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/6392025-06-13T15:25:00ZJ.MNRASIVOAVMC survey. XIV. SFR in SMCWe analyse deep images from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds in the YJKs filters, covering 14deg^2^ (10 tiles), split into 120 subregions, and comprising the main body and Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We apply a colour-magnitude diagram reconstruction method that returns their best-fitting star formation rate SFR(t), age-metallicity relation (AMR), distance and mean reddening, together with 68 percent confidence intervals. The distance data can be approximated by a plane tilted in the East-West direction with a mean inclination of 39{deg}, although deviations of up to +/-3kpc suggest a distorted and warped disc. After assigning to every observed star a probability of belonging to a given age-metallicity interval, we build high-resolution population maps. These dramatically reveal the flocculent nature of the young star-forming regions and the nearly smooth features traced by older stellar generations. They document the formation of the SMC Wing at ages <0.2Gyr and the peak of star formation in the SMC Bar at ~40Myr. We clearly detect periods of enhanced star formation at 1.5 and 5Gyr. The former is possibly related to a new feature found in the AMR, which suggests ingestion of metal-poor gas at ages slightly larger than 1Gyr. The latter constitutes a major period of stellar mass formation. We confirm that the SFR(t) was moderately low at even older ages.magellanic-cloudsstellar-distanceextinctiongalactic-and-extragalactic-astronomyobservational-astronomyhttps://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/449/639http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74490639https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/449/6392015MNRAS.449..639Rhttps://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/MNRAS/449/639Cone search capability for table J/MNRAS/449/639/table3 (Mean distances and extinctions for each subregion)Rubele S.Girardi L.Kerber L.Cioni M.-R.L.Piatti A.E.Zaggia S.,Bekki K.Bressan A.Clementini G.De Grijs R.Emerson J.P.,Groenewegen M.A.T.Ivanov V.D.Marconi M.Marigo P.Moretti M.-I.,Ripepi V.Subramanian S.Tatton B.L.Van Loon J.T.CDS2016https://cds.unistra.fr/vizier-org/licences_vizier.htmlCDS support team <cds-question@unistra.fr>DatasetAstroObjectsastronomy