2003/01/22 by Steffen Mieske, S. Mieske, Mieske, S. +4
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Semiconductor Detectors and Materials #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Optical Systems and Laser Technology #Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0301446
4 pages, 5 figures, conference proceedings of the JENAM 2002 GE-workshop. To be published by Kluwer (Astrophysics and Space Science Series)
arxiv created 2003/01/22 · openalex publication_date 2003/01/22 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The potential of the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) method to determine distances to dwarf ellipticals in nearby clusters is investigated. We find that for the Fornax cluster, the SBF method yields reliable results down to very faint magnitudes, in our case down to MV ~- 11 mag when observing for about 1 hour at good seeing with an 8m-class telescope in the I-filter. Comparison between real and simulated data for the Centaurus Cluster shows that our simulations do not overestimate the achievable S/N of the SBF method.