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Lego Figure holding a lego telescope. Photo

Arne Ardeberg

Professor emeritus

Lego Figure holding a lego telescope. Photo

Evolution of distant galaxies from cluster photometry: a program for a 50-m ELT

Author

  • Arne Ardeberg
  • Peter Linde

Editor

  • Jacobus M. Oschmann

Summary, in English

The formation, shaping and evolution of galaxies are processes of high interest but poorly known. This is true also for our closest galactic neighbours. Of key importance is a representative sample of all major types of galaxies with solid evolutionary parameters. Stellar clusters are excellent probes of galactic evolution, albeit so far useful at smaller distances only, mainly due to the limiting effects of image crowding. With extremely large telescopes (ELTs) with full adaptive optics (AO) and near diffraction limited performance, the effects of image crowding will be drastically reduced. Thus, the excellence of clusters of stars as evolutionary probes can be extended out to cosmological distances. We have studied this extension. With data on the Str

Department/s

  • Lund Observatory - Has been reorganised

Publishing year

2004

Language

English

Pages

72-83

Publication/Series

Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volume

5489

Issue

1

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

SPIE

Topic

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

Keywords

  • galaxy evolution
  • galaxy formation
  • galaxy shaping
  • stellar clusters
  • extremely large telescopes
  • adaptive optics
  • image crowding
  • cluster photometry
  • star clusters
  • evolutionary probes
  • cosmology
  • Stromgren uvby system
  • open test cluster
  • galactic background field
  • colour-magnitude diagrams
  • 1 to 500 Mpc
  • 50 m
  • Sun
  • evolutionary parameters
  • age parameter
  • integral colour
  • luminosity functions
  • turn-off point determination

Conference name

Ground-Based Telescopes

Conference date

2004-06-21 - 2004-06-25

Conference place

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0277-786X
  • ISSN: 1996-756X