Horizontal-Branch Stars as an Age Indicator

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1999-06-18

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9906303v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

10 pages, 2 figures, Invited paper presented at the workshop on "Spectrophotometric Dating of Stars & Galaxies", held at Annap

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Surface temperature distribution of horizontal-branch (HB) stars is very sensitive to age in old stellar systems, which makes it an attractive age indicator. In this paper, we present the recent revision of our model calculations for the HB morphology of globular clusters. The result is more updated version of our earlier models (Lee, Demarque, & Zinn 1994), which suggests that the HB morphology is more sensitive (\sim 40%) to age. We also present our new model calculations on the effect of HB stars in dating old stellar systems using the H$\beta$ index. Our results indicate that the effect of HB stars is rather strong, and suggest a possibility for the systematic difference in age between the globular clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy and those in giant elliptical galaxies. Finally, we compare these results with the relative ages estimated from our far-UV dating technique for giant elliptical galaxies.

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