Photometric Constraints on Chemical Evolution Models of Irregular Galaxies
Abstract
Photometric properties of stellar populations that evolve according to chemical evolution models developed by Carigi, Colin, & Peimbert (1999) and Carigi & Peimbert (2001) are explored. Models explain the oxygen abundance and gas mass fraction of irregular galaxies NGC 1560, I Zw 18, NGC 2366, and a typical irregular galaxy. The photometric predictions help to narrow down the range of possible chemical evolution models. Observed colors of I Zw 18 imply an age of 10^8 - 10^9 yr for its dominant population, while 10^9 - 10^{10} yr is an older age preferred by the rest of the galaxy sample. Observed colors are in general, within errors, close to predicted. There is a tendency for the observed (B-V) color to imply higher metallicities at a fixed age than (U-B) (equivalently, (U-B) implies younger ages than (B-V)).
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0009419,
title = {Photometric Constraints on Chemical Evolution Models of Irregular Galaxies},
author = {Leticia Carigi and Gustavo Bruzual},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0009419},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pages, for ASP Conf. Ser.:"Galaxy Disks and Disk Galaxies", eds. J.G. Funes S.J. and E.M . Corsini