On the age and metallicity estimation of spiral galaxies using optical and near-infrared photometry

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 664, Issue 1 I, 2007, Pages 215-225

  Lee, Hyun Chul ^a   Worthey, Guy ^a   Trager, Scott C ^b   Faber, S M ^c  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: evolution; Galaxies: photometry; Galaxies: spiral; Galaxies: stellar content

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547700209     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518855     Document Type: Article

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