Paper:	Probabilistic Empirical Population Synthesis Applied to Nearby Galaxies
Volume:	249, The Central Kiloparsec of Starbursts and AGN: the La Palma Connection
Page:	585
Authors:	Rodrigo Souza Leão, J.; Cid Fernandes, R, Jr.
Abstract:	Empirical population synthesis is used to study the stellar content of nearby galaxies described in Kennicutt's atlas using a probabilistic approach based on the Metropolis algorithm to sample the parameter space. The synthesis results are probability distributions for the components of the population vector vec x = (x1,x2,..,x12) which represents the fractions of light due to each base component. The population vectors obtained for these galaxies bear a strong correspondence with the morphological types, in the usual sense that later-type galaxies have proportionally larger populations of younger stars than early-type ones.

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