Ubiquitous time variability of integrated stellar populations

Charlie Conroy (), Pieter G. van Dokkum and Jieun Choi
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Charlie Conroy: Harvard University
Pieter G. van Dokkum: Yale University
Jieun Choi: Harvard University

Nature, 2015, vol. 527, issue 7579, 488-491

Abstract: The number of long-period variable stars in a stellar population is directly related to their lifetime, which is difficult to predict from first principles; here a time-dependent stellar population model is constructed that includes the effects of long-period variable stars, and is applied to the galaxy M87.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1038/nature15731

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