IMF variations in unresolved stellar populations: Challenges
Abstract
This talk focuses on the challenges facing the recent discovery of variations of the stellar initial mass function in massive early-type galaxies, with special emphasis on the constraints via gravity-sensitive spectral features.
- Publication:
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IAU Focus Meeting
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921316004853
- Bibcode:
- 2016IAUFM..29B.193F
- Keywords:
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- stars: luminosity function;
- mass function;
- galaxies: elliptical and lenticular;
- cD