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Dr. Deep Anand
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Senior Staff Scientist working on Hubble. views are my own.
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we use well defined methods for measuring the TRGB, and we do so in F090W (~I-band), where the TRGB feature is very stable as a function of metallicity and age, unlike redder filters where its slope becomes difficult to pin down. you can clearly point it out, by eye even!

left-panel: color magnitude diagram for NGC 1559 taken with JWST data. there is a clear break, which corresponds to the tip of the red giant branch (brightest ascent of red giant stars)

right-panel: luminosity function and edge detection measurement of the TRGB
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as always, more than happy to hear feedback from the community on this work (just submitted to ApJ).

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Dr. Deep Anand
@styrofoamplates.bsky.social
Senior Staff Scientist working on Hubble. views are my own.
200 followers133 following52 posts