Hot Stellar Populations in Elliptical Galaxies

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Oct 2001

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2869. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Stellar Populations And Star Clusters

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The term `hot stellar populations in elliptical galaxies' refers to the presence of a population component that produces a thermal far-ultraviolet continuum in spectra taken of the centers of elliptical galaxies. This phenomenon, called the `UV rising branch', `UV upturn' or `UVX'It is also sometimes confusingly referred to as the `UV excess', which has a separate meaning in stellar photometry. i...

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