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Several recent studies have pointed out that there are serious degeneracies in broad-band colours, which make it difficult if not impossible distinguish the effects of metallicity and age in the integrated light. In this paper, I discuss the difficulties involved in breaking these degeneracies, particularly in situations where there is significant reddening from dust. Corrections for dust absorption in spiral galaxies are likely to be highly model dependent, particularly for edge-on systems.
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Terndrup, D.M. (1996). Infrared Colour Gradients in Spiral Galaxies. In: Minniti, D., Rix, HW. (eds) Spiral Galaxies in the Near-IR. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49739-4_5
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