Speaker
Dr
Ilani Loubser
(North-West University)
Description
I will present results of an ongoing investigation of a large sample of brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), their properties and the relationships between these and the properties of the host clusters. Here, we compare the stellar population properties derived from high signal-to-noise, optical long-slit spectra with the GALEX ultraviolet (UV) colour measurements for 36 nearby BCGs to understand the diversity in the most rapidly evolving feature in old stellar systems, the UV-upturn.
Primary author
Dr
Ilani Loubser
(North-West University)
Co-author
Dr
Patricia Sanchez-blazquez
(Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
