Progress Report: Probabilistic and Statistical Bases of Surface Brightness Fluctuations

Cervino, M.; Luridiana, V.; Jamet, L.
Referencia bibliográfica

From Stars to Galaxies: Building the Pieces to Build Up the Universe. ASP Conference Series, Vol. 374, proceedings of the conference held 16-20 October 2006 at Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy. Edited by Antonella Vallenari, Rosaria Tantalo, Laura Portinari, and Alessia Moretti., p.407

Fecha de publicación:
12
2007
Número de autores
3
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0
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0
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Descripción
The surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) method is a statistical method applied on image pixels in different bands. This contribution aims to distinguish between the observational (statistical) method and the theoretical (probabilistic) method based on stellar population synthesis and needed for the calibration of observational SBF. We find that the commonly used SBF theoretical definition as the mean luminosity-weighted luminosity of the stellar population is only compatible with the observational method under quite strong hypotheses, and that it is not compatible with stellar population theory results.