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Intermediate Age Populations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

J.R. Mould
J.R. Mould*
Affiliation:
Palomar Observatory, California Institute of Technology Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A.

Abstract

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Our understanding of asymptotic giant branch evolution has reached the point where the timescales are well enough known that realistic luminosity functions can be computed. The Mira and OH-IR star phases of stellar evolution truncate the AGB well before Reimers' Law mass loss exhausts the envelope. These luminosity functions allow us to compute the luminosity variance, which may be sensitive to the presence of intermediate age populations.

Type
II. The Stellar Populations of Nearby Resolved Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 149: The Stellar populations of Galaxies , 1992 , pp. 181 - 190
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Copyright © Kluwer 

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