Modelling realistic horizontal branch morphologies and their impact on spectroscopic ages of unresolved stellar systems

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 412, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2445-2453

  Percival, Susan M ^a   Salaris, Maurizio ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Galaxies: stellar content; Globular clusters: general; Stars: horizontal branch

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; METALS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STARS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

GALAXY:STELLAR CONTENT; GLOBULAR CLUSTERS:GENERAL; HORIZONTAL BRANCHES; METALLICITIES; POPULATION SYNTHESIS; SIMPLE++; SPECTRAL INDICES; STARS: HORIZONTAL BRANCH; STELLAR POPULATIONS; SYNTHESIS MODELS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 79953778574     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.18066.x     Document Type: Article

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