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Potential colors for studying stellar populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2006

Zhongmu Li
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences email: zhongmu.li@gmail.com
Zhanwen Han
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China
Fenghui Zhang
Affiliation:
National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650011, China
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Abstract

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We try to find some colors that have the potential to study stellar age and metallicity from UBV RIJHK and ugriz colors using the simple population synthesis model of Bruzual & Charlot 2003 (BC03). The principal component analysis (PCA) (See Kong & Cheng 2001) and relative sensitive parameter techniques (see Worthey 1994) are used in this work. As a result, some colors such as (B – K), (R – K), (I – H), (B – V), (U – R), (R – I), are found to have the ability to break the stellar age-metallicity degeneracy partially and can possibly be used for studying stellar populations of galaxies.

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Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

References

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