New Roads for Understanding the Stellar Populations in Early-Type Galaxies

Vazdekis, A.; Cervantes-Rodriguez, J. L.; Carretero, C.; de Lorenzo-Cáceres, A.
Bibliographical reference

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.361

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2007
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0
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Description
We present new tools for improving our abilities for disentangling relevant stellar population parameters in early-type galaxies. To develop these tools we use stellar population synthesis models predicting spectra for old and intermediate-aged stellar populations at moderately high resolution. We propose new indices to lift the age/metallicity degeneracy, which do not need to be restricted to standard spectroscopic definitions. We use this methodology to explore various approaches that might provide further clues on galaxy formation and evolution.