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The analysis of red giant branch photometry in galaxies

a r X i v : a s t r o - p h / 0 2 1 0 0 6 4 v 1 2 O c t 2 0 0 2 Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 000, 1–15 (2002) Printed 2 February 2008 (MN LATEX style file v1.4) The Analysis of Red Giant Branch Photometry in Galaxies C. M. Frayn1, G. F. Gilmore1 1 Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, UK Submitted to MNRAS, June 2002 ABSTRACT We present an analysis of the many possible methods for simulating and analysing colour-magnitude diagrams, with application to studies of the field halo stellar popula- tions of resolved galaxies. Special consideration is made to the analysis of stars on the Red Giant branch (RGB), and methods for obtaining metallicity distributions for old populations based on analysis of evolved sections of the Colour Magnitude Diagram (CMD). These tools are designed to provide a reliable and accurate method for the analysis of resolved Population II stars in the haloes of nearby galaxies. In particular, we introduce a Perpendicular Distance method for calculating most likely source isochrones for stars in our input dataset. This method is shown to have several advantages over a more traditional approach considering the isochrone as a set of finely-spaced Gaussian probability distributions. We also consider methods by which the obtained metallicity distribution might be most efficiently optimised and especially evaluate the difficulties involved in avoiding sub-optimal local maxima in the likelihood maximisation procedure. Key words: galaxies: haloes – stars: Population II – methods: data analysis – Hertzsprung-Russell (HR) diagram 1 INTRODUCTION Stellar populations in galaxies encode the star formation and merger histories of galaxies, the relationship between gas in- and out-flows and the local star formation rate over time. Extensive studies of the stellar populations in the cen- tral regions of galaxies, bulges and disks, have quantified knowledge of the dominant metal-rich populations. Galax- ies with substantial disks c