Calibration of the Surface Brightness Fluctuation Method for Young and Intermediate Age Stellar Populations

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We will observe six LMC clusters with a range of ages from 25Myr to 2 Gyr to extend and check our calibration of the surface brightness fluctuation method for intermediate-age and young stellar populations. We will complete the visual bands HST datasets by adding data in U and B bands and securing accurate photometry for the brightest cluster stars, and measure the CMDs in the infrared J and K bands, so we can derive the SBF parameters in these bands. These observations will determine whether the systematic discrepancy in the surface brightness calibration we see in our earlier work is a problem of the models, or with incompleteness of the observations, or both, by much reducing the error bars on the measured fluctuation brightness and colors. Only when this calibration and comparison work has been completed will we be able to proceed to confidently applying the SBF method to measure stellar population parameters in distant galaxies.

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