Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – Galaxy Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2009-04-01
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Galaxy Astrophysics
8 pages, Invited review presented at "Probing Stellar Populations out to the Distant Universe," September 2008, Cefalu, Italy
Scientific paper
Surface Brightness Fluctuations (SBF) can provide useful information about the unresolved stellar content of early-type galaxies and spiral bulges. The absolute SBF magnitude Mbar in a given passband depends on the properties of the stellar population and can be predicted by population synthesis models. SBF measurements in different bandpasses are sensitive to different evolutionary stages within the galaxy stellar population. Near-IR SBF magnitudes are sensitive to the evolution of stars within the AGB phase, especially the thermally pulsing AGB, while SBF in the blue and UV are sensitive to the hot horizontal branch and post-AGB stages. Thus, multi-band SBF studies can constrain important evolutionary parameters. Empirically, SBF data at the red end of the optical spectrum (i, z, and potentially y) remain excellent distance indicators. I briefly review some recent work on stellar populations using SBF, primarily from an observational point of view.
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