Reconciliation of the Surface Brightness Fluctuation and Type Ia Supernova Distance Scales [PDF]
, 2001 We present Hubble Space Telescope measurements of surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) distances to early-type galaxies that have hosted Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia).
E. Ajhar +4 more
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Surface brightness fluctuation distances to NGC 4494 and NGC 4565 and the Virgocentric infall
Astronomical Journal, 1994 L. Simard, C. Pritchet
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Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuations of Magellanic Star Clusters
The Astrophysical Journal, 2004 We present surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) in the near--IR for 191 Magellanic star clusters available in the Second Incremental and All Sky Data releases of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), and compare them with SBFs of Fornax Cluster galaxies and with predictions from stellar population models. Our goals are twofold.
Gonzalez, Rosa A. +2 more
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, 2017 We study the surface brightness fluctuations of the cosmic X-ray background (CXB) using Chandra data of XBOOTES. After masking out resolved sources we compute the power spectrum of fluctuations of the unresolved CXB for angular scales from ~2 arcsec to ...
Gilfanov, Marat +3 more
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The Astrophysical Journal, 2002 We have measured KS-band (2.0-2.3 μm) surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) of 19 early-type galaxies in the Fornax Cluster. Fornax is ideally suited both for calibrating SBFs as distance indicators and for using SBFs to probe the unresolved stellar content of early-type galaxies. Combining our results with published data for other nearby clusters, we
Liu, Michael C. +2 more
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On surface brightness fluctuations: probabilistic and statistical bases [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2008 Aims. This work aims to provide a theoretical formulation of surface brightness fluctuations (SBF) in the framework of probabilistic population synthesis models that have no deterministic relations between the different stellar components of a population but only relations on average, and to distinguish between the different distributions involved in ...
M. Cerviño, V. Luridiana, L. Jamet
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EFFECTS OF α-ELEMENT ENHANCEMENT AND THE THERMALLY PULSING-ASYMPTOTIC GIANT BRANCH ON SURFACE BRIGHTNESS FLUCTUATION MAGNITUDES AND BROADBAND COLORS [PDF]
, 2009 We investigate the effects of α-element enhancement and the thermally pulsing-asymptotic giant branch (TP-AGB) stars on the surface brightness fluctuation (SBF) magnitudes and broadband colors of simple stellar populations and compare to the empirical ...
Hyun-Chul Lee, G. Worthey, J. Blakeslee
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The Impact of Atmospheric Fluctuations on Degree-scale Imaging of the Cosmic Microwave Background [PDF]
, 2000 Fluctuations in the brightness of the Earth's atmosphere originating from water vapor are an important source of noise for ground-based instruments attempting to measure anisotropy in the Cosmic Microwave Background.
Armstrong J. W. +10 more
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New Optical and Near-Infrared Surface Brightness Fluctuation Models: A Primary Distance Indicator Ranging from Globular Clusters to Distant Galaxies? [PDF]
, 2003 We present new theoretical models for surface brightness fluctuations (SBFs) both for optical and near-infrared bands in standard ground-based and Hubble Space Telescope filter systems. Simple stellar population simulations are adopted.
M. Cantiello +12 more
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Surface brightness fluctuations, tracers of stellar mass-loss? [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2009 AbstractWe present optical and IR integrated colors and SBF magnitudes, computed from stellar population synthesis models that include emission from the dusty envelopes surrounding mass-loosing TP-AGB stars. We explore the effects of varying the mass-loss rate by one order of magnitude around the fiducial value, modifying accordingly both the stellar ...
Rosa A. González-Lópezlira +4 more
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