The
Tools of a Stellar "Demographer"
Dr. Pam Marcum
Texas Christian University
The Tools of a Stellar
"Demographer"
I will present various techniques for taking
a stellar "census" of the
unresolved stellar component
in galaxies.
I will end the discussion by describing
some applications for stellar population
analysis, which
hopefully will demonstrate why one would even
care about
star "demographics" in a
galaxy. For example, I will
demonstrate how knowledge of the stellar
population
within a galaxy can give critical information
regarding
galactic dynamics, kinematics and/or clues to
galaxy
formation and evolution.