Photometric entropy of stellar populations and related diagnostic tools

dc.creatorBuzzoni, Alberto
dc.date2005-09-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:18:24Z
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dc.descriptionWe discuss, from a statistical point of view, some leading issues that deal with the study of stellar populations in fully or partially unresolved aggregates, like globular clusters and distant galaxies. A confident assessment of the effective number and luminosity of stellar contributors can provide, in this regard, a very useful interpretative tool to properly assess the observational bias coming from crowding conditions or surface brightness fluctuations. These arguments have led us to introduce a new concept of "photometric entropy" of a stellar population, whose impact on different astrophysical aspects of cluster diagnostic has been reviewed here.
dc.description13 pages and 9 figures. An invited contribution to "Resolved Stellar Populations", Cancun (Mexico) Apr 2005. To appear on the proceedings of the conference edited by D. Valls-Gabaud & M. Chavez, ASP Conf. Ser. (ASP: San Francisco). See http://www.bo.astro.it/~eps/home.html for more info and model retrieval
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509602
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509602
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/94724
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titlePhotometric entropy of stellar populations and related diagnostic tools
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