Recent results from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure

Seminar

Recent results from the Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (S4G)

Albert Bosma (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (CNRS-INSU, Université d’Aix-Marseille))

Date

Thursday, 31 October, 2013 at 15:00

Place

Sala de graus Eduard Fontseré (Facultat de Física UB)

I will present some results from the S4G survey, which is an imaging survey of 2331 nearby galaxies using the Spitzer telescope at 3.6 and 4.5 micron. These include work on thin and thick disks, disk truncations, and the possibility of creating stellar mass maps from the Spitzer data alone.