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A new stellar library developed for stellar population synthesis modeling is presented. The library consist of 985 stars spanning a large range in atmospheric parameters. The spectra were obtained at the 2.5m INT telescope and cover the…

Libraries of stellar spectra are fundamental tools for the study of stellar populations and both empirical and synthetic libraries have been used for this purpose. In this paper, a new library of high resolution synthetic spectra is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Coelho , B. Barbuy , J. Melendez , R. Schiavon , B. Castilho

We define a method for analysis of the integrated spectra of extra-galactic globular clusters that provides more reliable measures of age, metallicity and alpha-element abundance ratio than have so far been achieved. The method involves the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert N. Proctor , Duncan A. Forbes , Michael A. Beasley

In the present work we compare in detail some of the major theoretical libraries with observations, aiming at detecting weaknesses and strengths from the stellar population modelling point of view. We compared model predictions and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lucimara Martins , Paula Coelho

Stellar clusters are regularly used to study the evolution of their host galaxy. Except for a few nearby galaxies, these studies rely on the interpretation of integrated cluster properties, especially integrated photometry observed using…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-12-17 P. Anders , R. Kotulla , R. de Grijs , J. Wicker

It is currently impossible to determine the abundances and ages of the stellar populations of distant, dense stellar systems star by star. Therefore, methods to analyze the composite light of stellar systems are required. I review the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. C. Trager

Most Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) harbour multiple populations of stars (MPs), composed of at least two generations: the first characterized by a "standard" $\alpha$-enhanced metal mixture, as observed in field halo stars of the Milky…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-10 Vinicius Branco , Paula R. T. Coelho , Ariane Lançon , Lucimara P. Martins , Philippe Prugniel

We present a new stellar population synthesis model, which predicts SEDs for single-age single-metallicity stellar populations, SSPs, at resolution 1.5A (FWHM) in the spectral region of the near-IR CaII triplet feature. The main ingredient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Vazdekis , A. J. Cenarro , J. Gorgas , N. Cardiel , R. F. Peletier

Our knowledge about unresolved stellar systems comes from comparing integrated-light properties to SSP models. Therefore it is crucial to calibrate the latter as well as possible by integrated-light colors of clusters that have reliable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 P. Pessev , P. Goudfrooij , T. Puzia , R. Chandar

We have obtained [Mg/Fe] for around 77% of the stars of the MILES library of stellar spectra in order to include this important information into simple stellar population (SSP) models. The abundance ratios, which were carefully calibrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Milone , A. E. Sansom , P. Sánchez-Blázquez

We present a new library of semi-empirical stellar spectra that is based on the empirical MILES library. A new, high resolution library of theoretical stellar spectra is generated that is specifically designed for use in stellar population…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-15 Adam T. Knowles , Anne E. Sansom , Carlos Allende Prieto , Alex Vazdekis

Stellar population synthesis is an important method in the galaxy and star-cluster studies. In the stellar population synthesis models, stellar spectral library is necessary for the integrated spectra of the stellar population. Usually, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 LianTao Cheng , FengHui Zhang

Theoretical stellar libraries have been increasingly used to overcome limitations of empirical libraries, e.g. by exploring atmospheric parameter spaces not well represented in the latter. This work presents a new theoretical library which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 P. R. T. Coelho

This paper is the 4th in a series describing the latest additions to the BaSTI stellar evolution database, which consists of a large set of homogeneous models and tools for population synthesis studies. Here we present a new set of low and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Susan M. Percival , Maurizio Salaris , Santi Cassisi , Adriano Pietrinferni

Integrated light spectroscopy from galaxies can be used to study the stellar populations that cannot be resolved into individual stars. This analysis relies on stellar population synthesis (SPS) techniques to study the formation history and…

We extend the spectral range of our stellar population synthesis models based on the MILES and CaT empirical stellar spectral libraries. For this purpose we combine these two libraries with the Indo-U.S. to construct composite stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Vazdekis , E. Ricciardelli , A. J. Cenarro , J. G. Rivero-González , L. A. Díaz-García , J. Falcón-Barroso

Integrated spectroscopy is the method of choice for deriving the ages of unresolved stellar systems. However, hot stellar evolutionary stages, such as hot horizontal branch stars and blue straggler stars (BSSs), can affect the integrated…

Determining the properties of old stellar populations (those with age >1 Gyr) has long involved the comparison of their integrated light, either in the form of photometry or spectroscopic indexes, with empirical or synthetic templates. Here…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 E R Stanway , J J Eldridge

Empirical stellar spectral libraries have applications in both extragalactic and stellar studies, and they have an advantage over theoretical libraries because they naturally include all relevant chemical species and physical processes.…

Accurate stellar population synthesis models are vital in understanding the properties and formation histories of galaxies. In order to calibrate and test the reliability of these models, they are often compared with observations of star…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Mark B. Peacock , Stephen E. Zepf , Thomas J. Maccarone , Arunav Kundu