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Stellar Populations and Hubble Type

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

Sidney van den Bergh
Sidney van den Bergh*
Affiliation:
Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, B.C.

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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalization than in their particular observations. Machiavelli

It was already realized by Hubble (1936) that galaxy morphology and stellar content were correlated. He pointed out that resolution into stars increases along the classification sequence Sa-Sb-Sc. Simultaneously the colours of spirals become bluer and their integrated spectral types become earlier as one proceeds from Sa to Sc. Baade (1944) speculated that the red stars in ellipticals and in the nuclear bulges of spirals were identical to those in globular clusters. He suggested that stars in galaxies belong to two distinct populations: young metal-rich stars of Population I which inhabit the disc and spiral arm regions of spirals, and old metal-poor stars of Population II which dominate the light of elliptical galaxies and the nuclear bulges of spirals. Subsequently Baade (1950) emphasized the strong correlation between the occurrence of gas and dust and the presence of young stars. As Baade put it so succinctly “No dust, no Population I”. Belief in a clear cut dichotomy between Population I and Population II was strengthened by the differences in their radial luminosity distributions. The surface brightness of Population I in spirals is well represented by an exponential disc, whereas the surface brightness of Population II stars in ellipticals and the bulges of spirals may be described by an r1/4 law (de Vaucouleurs 1959).

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Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 6 , 1983 , pp. 187 - 190
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Copyright © Reidel 1983

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