• DOI:10.1086/345430
Corpus ID: 551714

Measuring Distances and Probing the Unresolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies Using Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations

@article{Jensen2003MeasuringDA,
  title={Measuring Distances and Probing the Unresolved Stellar Populations of Galaxies Using Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations},
  author={J. Jensen and J. Tonry and B. Barris and R. Thompson and M. Liu and M. Rieke and E. Ajhar and John P. Blakeslee Gemini and HawaiiIfA and Arizona and Miami and Jhu},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2003},
  volume={583},
  pages={712-726}
}

J. Jensen, J. Tonry, +9 authors Jhu

Published 2003

Physics

The Astrophysical Journal

To empirically calibrate the IR surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distance scale and probe the properties of unresolved stellar populations, we measured fluctuations in 65 galaxies using NICMOS on the Hubble Space Telescope. The early-type galaxies in this sample include elliptical and S0 galaxies and spiral bulges in a variety of environments. Absolute fluctuation magnitudes in the F160W (1.6 ?m) filter (F160W) were derived for each galaxy using previously measured I-band SBF and Cepheid… CONTINUE READING

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