2007/01/31 by Roberto Cid Fernandes, Fernandes, Roberto Cid
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0701902
To appear in the Boletin de la Asociacion Argentina de Astronomia,vol.49
arxiv created 2007/01/31 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01
Recent advances in stellar population modelling and avalanches of data from mega-surveys have revived the interest in techniques to extract information about galaxy evolution from integrated spectra. This contribution provides an informal and (hopefully) pedagogical, but inevitably biased and incomplete introduction to this field. Emphasis is given to the several choices one has to make in the process of modelling galaxy spectra.