Validation of stellar population and kinematical analysis of galaxies
Abstract
3D spectroscopy produces hundreds of spectra from which maps of the characteristics of stellar populations (age-metallicity) and internal kinematics of galaxies can be derived. We carried on simulations to assess the reliability of inversion methods and to define the requirements for future observations. We quantify the biases and show that to minimize the errors on the kinematics, age and metallicity (in a given observing time) the size of the spatial elements and the spectral dispersion should be chosen to obtain an instrumental velocity dispersion comparable to the physical dispersion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0602362,
title = {Validation of stellar population and kinematical analysis of galaxies},
author = {M. Koleva and N. Bavouzet and I. Chilingarian and P. Prugniel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0602362},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, extended version of a poster proceeding to appear in "Science Perspectives for 3D Spectroscopy", eds. M. Kissler-Patig, M. M. Roth and J. R. Walsh, ESO Astrophysics Symposia. (The two last pages with figures are not in the conference proceedings.)