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Yonsei evolutionary population synthesis (YEPS). II. Spectro-photometric evolution of helium-enhanced stellar populations

Astrophysics of Galaxies 2017-06-28 v2

Abstract

The discovery of multiple stellar populations in Milky Way globular clusters (GCs) has stimulated various follow-up studies on helium-enhanced stellar populations. Here we present the evolutionary population synthesis models for the spectro-photometric evolution of simple stellar populations (SSPs) with varying initial helium abundance (YiniY_{\rm ini}). We show that YiniY_{\rm ini} brings about {dramatic} changes in spectro-photometric properties of SSPs. Like the normal-helium SSPs, the integrated spectro-photometric evolution of helium-enhanced SSPs is also dependent on metallicity and age for a given YiniY_{\rm ini}. {We discuss the implications and prospects for the helium-enhanced populations in relation to the second-generation populations found in the Milky Way GCs.} All of the models are available at \url{http://web.yonsei.ac.kr/cosmic/data/YEPS.htm}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1704.07382,
  title  = {Yonsei evolutionary population synthesis (YEPS). II. Spectro-photometric evolution of helium-enhanced stellar populations},
  author = {Chul Chung and Suk-Jin Yoon and Young-Wook Lee},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.07382},
  year   = {2017}
}

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Accepted for publication in ApJ, 21 pages, 12 figures, 3 tables