SAPAC: a SBF analysis pipeline for the astronomical community
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2005
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Dunn, Laura
Jerjen, Helmut
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Cambridge University Press
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Large volumes of CCD imaging data that will become available from wide-field cameras at telescopes such as the CFHT, SUBARU, VST, or VISTA in the near future are highly suitable for systematic distance surveys of early-type galaxies using the Surface Brightness Fluctuation (SBF) method. For the efficient processing of such large data sets, we are developing the first semi-automatic SBF analysis pipeline named SAPAC. After a brief description of the SBF method we discuss the image quality needed for a successful distance measurement and give some background information on SAPAC.
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Keywords: Galaxies: distances and redshifts; Methods: data analysis
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Near-field Cosmology with Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies