Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-01-31
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in the proceedings of IAU symposium 241, "Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies"
Scientific paper
10.1017/S1743921307008794
The combination of huge databases of galaxy spectra and advances in evolutionary synthesis models in the past few years has renewed interest in an old question: How to estimate the star formation history of a galaxy out of its integrated spectrum? Fresh approaches to this classical problem are making it possible to extract the best of both worlds, producing exquisite pixel-by-pixel fits to galaxy spectra with state-of-the-art stellar population models while at the same time exploring the fabulous statistics of mega-surveys to derive the star-formation and chemical enrichment histories of different types of galaxies with an unprecedented level of detail. This review covers some of these recent advances, focusing on results for late-type, star-forming galaxies, and outlines some of the issues which will keep us busy in the coming years.
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