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Simulations of the Brightest Stars in Galaxies as Distance Indicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 August 2017

Laura Greggio*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Astronomia CP 596, I-40100 Bologna, Italy

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The brightest stars in galaxies have been often considered useful as distance indicators. However, one may expect that the absolute magnitude of the brightest stars in galaxies should depend on the IMF and on the present SFR, and that statistical effects may be important, although different in different photometric bands, due to the different numbers of objects effectively sampled.

Type
Poster Papers - Sessions 1 and 2
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1986 

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