TY - JOUR AU - Gorgas García, Francisco Javier AU - Cardiel López, Nicolás AU - Pedraz, S. AU - González, J. J. PY - 1999 DO - 10.1051/aas:1999375 SN - 0365-0138 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/59918 T2 - Astronomy & astrophysics supplement series AB - Empirical fitting functions, describing the behaviour of the λ4000 Å break, D_4000, in terms of effective temperature, metallicity and surface gravity, are presented. For this purpose, the break has been measured in 392 stars from the Lick/IDS... LA - eng M2 - 29 PB - EDP Sciences KW - Old stellar populations KW - Early-type galaxies KW - Galactic globular-clusters KW - Line-strength indexes KW - Star-formation KW - Elliptical galaxies KW - Spectral evolution KW - Radial-velocities KW - Gradients KW - Metallicities TI - Empirical calibration of the λ4000 Å break TY - journal article VL - 139 ER -