Uncertainties in the galaxy mass and age determination from inverse population synthesis models

Details Uncertainties in the galaxy mass and age determination from inverse population synthesis models Uncertainties in the galaxy mass and age determination from inverse population synthesis models

Oct 2011

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XIII Latin American Regional IAU Meeting (Eds. W. J. Henney & S. Torres-Peimbert) Revista Mexicana de Astronomía y Astrofísica (

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Galaxies: Fundamental Parameters, Galaxies: Stellar Content

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We present a quantitative analysis of the uncertainties in the galaxy mass and age recovery via inverse population synthesis methods. We show that the error in the determination of these quantities depends on the fraction of stars younger than 10^8 yr and that it can be a factor of 2 in mass and 2.6 in age. We also find that the solutions obtained with fast methods of χ^{2} minimization are consistent with more time consuming methods that exhaustively explore parameter space.

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