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Arimoto, Nobuo; Yamada, Yoshihiko; Vazdekis, Alexandre; Peletier, Reynier
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Multiwavelength mapping of galaxy formation and evolution, Proceedings of the ESO Workshop held at Venice, Italy, 13-16 October 2003. Edited by A. Renzini and R. Bender. Series Editor: Bruno Leibundgut, ESO, Garching, Germany. ESO astrophysics symposia. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 2005925391. ISBN 10 3-540-25665-2; ISBN 13 978-540-25565-6; QB857.5.E96 E78 2003. Published by Springer, Berlin, 2005, p.302
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Breaking age/metallicity degeneracy ([19], [1]) is crucial for
understanding stellar populations in elliptical galaxies. Spectroscopic
properties, such as line strength, can partially break age/metallicity
degeneracy. Reference [19] found that Hβ index, defined in [4]
(Lick indices), is relatively sensitive to luminosity-weighted age of
galaxies. But emission line makes Hβ shallower, therefore
correction of emission line effect is necessary. Hγ and Hδ
indices, such as HγA, HδA,
HγF and HδF, which are less affected
by emission than Hβ, are defined in [8] and [20]. However, those
indices are still affected by age/metallicity degeneracy, since they are
measured on low resolution spectra (9-11 Å). Reference [8] defined
HγHR to find it strongly sensitive to age. But
HγHR is much affected by velocity dispersion (σ)
of galaxies, since the bandpasses of feature and pseudocontinua are very
narrow.