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Modeling stellar populations in cluster galaxies

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In this review I highlight the role played by spectrophotometric models in the study of galaxy evolution in distant clusters. I summarize the main achievements of the modeling of k+a spectra, the derivation of the star formation rate in emission line galaxies and the stellar ages of red cluster galaxies. The current knowledge of the dependence of the star formation histories on the galaxy morphology and luminosity is also presented.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0307091,
  title  = {Modeling stellar populations in cluster galaxies},
  author = {Bianca M. Poggianti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0307091},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

Invited review, 15 pages, 6 figures, to appear in Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series, Vol. 3: Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Cosmological Structure and Galaxy Evolution, ed. J. S. Mulchaey, A. Dressler, & A. Oemler (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), revised version with final layout and some typos corrected