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We present Hubble’s Next Generation Spectral Library, a library of UV-optical spectra (0.2-1.0 μ) of 378 stars. We show that the mid-UV spectrum can be used to constrain the ages and metallicities of high-redshift galaxies presently being observed with large, ground-based telescopes.
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Heap, S., Lindler, D.J. (2009). Constraining Galaxy Evolution With Hubble’s Next Generation Spectral Library. In: New Quests in Stellar Astrophysics II. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87621-4_37
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