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Surface-brightness fluctuations in stellar populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2006

A. Marín-Franch  and
A. Aparicio
A. Marín-Franch
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Vía Láctea s/n, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: amarin@iac.es
A. Aparicio
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Vía Láctea s/n, E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain email: amarin@iac.es
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Abstract

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A new theoretical calibration of surface-brightness fluctuations (SBF) for single age, single metallicity stellar populations is presented for the optical and near-IR broad-band filters, as well as for the HST WFPC2 filters. The IAC-star code is used together with two Padua and the Teramo stellar evolution libraries. A set of single-burst stellar populations with a wide range of ages (3Gy-15Gy) and metallicities (Z=0.0001-0.03) have been computed. The present theoretical calibration shows that the analysis of near-IR SBF provides a very powerful tool in the study and characterization of unresolved stellar populations.

Keywords

galaxies: elliptical and lenticulargalaxies: fundamental parametersgalaxies: stellar content
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 2 , Symposium S241: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies , December 2006 , pp. 191 - 192
Copyright
Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2007

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