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The characterization of exoplanet requires reliable determination of the fundamental parameters of their host stars. Spectral fitting plays an important role in this process. For the majority of stellar parameters matching synthetic spectra…

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This review deals with stellar population models computed by means of the evolutionary synthesis technique that was pioneered by Beatrice Tinsley roughly three decades ago. The focus is on the simplest models, the so called Simple Stellar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Claudia Maraston

This is the third paper of a series reporting the results from the POPSTAR evolutionary synthesis models. The main goal of this work is to present and discuss the synthetic photometric properties of Single Stellar Populations (SSPs)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 M. L. García-Vargas , M. Mollá , M. L. Martín-Manjón

Stellar clusters are critical constituents within galaxies: they are the result of highest-density star formation, and through their spatially and temporally correlated feedback they regulate their host galaxy evolution. We present a novel…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-08-12 Marta Reina-Campos , Oleg Y. Gnedin , Alison Sills , Hui Li

Compact Object Mergers: Population Astrophysics and Statistics (COMPAS; https://compas.science) is a public rapid binary population synthesis code. COMPAS generates populations of isolated stellar binaries under a set of parametrized…

Stellar atmosphere modelling predicts the luminosity and temperature of a star, together with parameters such as the effective gravity and the metallicity, by reproducing the observed spectral energy distribution. Most observational data…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-21 Iain McDonald , Albert A. Zijlstra , Nick L. J. Cox , Emma L. Alexander , Alexander Csukai , Ria Ramkumar , Alexander Hollings

[Abridged]. We present SEDs for single-age, single-metallicity stellar populations (SSPs) covering the optical range at resolution 2.3A (FWHM). These SEDs constitute our base models, as they combine scaled-solar isochrones with MILES…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-27 A. Vazdekis , P. Sánchez-Blázquez , J. Falcón-Barroso , A. J. Cenarro , M. A. Beasley , N. Cardiel , J. Gorgas , R. F. Peletier

We present Synthesizer, a fast, flexible, modular and extensible platform for modelling synthetic astrophysical observables. Synthesizer can be used for a number of applications, but is predominantly designed for generating mock observables…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Christopher C. Lovell , William J. Roper , Aswin P. Vijayan , Stephen M. Wilkins , Sophie Newman , Louise Seeyave

Stellar abundance analysis relies on flexible, high-performance spectral synthesis. To meet these needs, we present PySME v1.0, an updated Python implementation of Spectroscopy Made Easy (SME) designed for precise and survey-scale modelling…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Mingjie Jian , Nikolai Piskunov , Jeff Valenti , Ella Xi Wang , Brian Thorsbro , Henrik Jönsson , Ansgar Wehrhahn

Models of stellar population synthesis (SPS) are the fundamental tool that relates the physical properties of a galaxy to its spectral energy distribution (SED). In this paper, we present DSPS: a python package for stellar population…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-02-20 Andrew P. Hearin , Jonás Chaves-Montero , Alex Alarcon , Matthew R. Becker , Andrew Benson

We present cogsworth, an open-source Python tool for producing self-consistent population synthesis and galactic dynamics simulations. With cogsworth one can (1) sample a population of binaries and star formation history, (2) perform rapid…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Tom Wagg , Katelyn Breivik , Mathieu Renzo , Adrian M. Price-Whelan

The stellar yields for galactic modeling applications (SYGMA) code is an open-source module that models the chemical ejecta and feedback of simple stellar populations (SSPs). It is intended for use in hydrodynamical simulations and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-18 Christian Ritter , Benoit Côté , Falk Herwig , Julio F. Navarro , Chris L. Fryer

Knowledge about the internal physical structure of stars is crucial to understanding their evolution. The novel binary population synthesis code POSYDON includes a module for interpolating the stellar and binary properties of any system at…

We present a new set of stellar interior and synthesis models for predicting the integrated emission from stellar populations in star clusters and galaxies of arbitrary age and metallicity. This work differs from existing spectral synthesis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Raul Jimenez , James MacDonald , James Dunlop , Paolo Padoan , John Peacock

We present PEGASE-HR, a new stellar population synthesis program generating high resolution spectra (R=10 000) over the optical range lambda=400--680 nm. It links the spectro-photometric model of galaxy evolution PEGASE.2 (Fioc &…

The formation of compact high-redshift star-forming clumps, the physical processes driving their evolution and their potential connection to present-day Globular Clusters are key open questions in galaxy formation. In this work, we aim to…

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

Stellar mass governs stellar evolution and the distribution of stellar masses plays a central role in the dynamical evolution of stellar clusters. Using high-precision astrometry and photometry from Gaia DR3, we investigate mass segregation…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-27 Jeison Alfonso , Alejandro Garcia-Varela , Katherine Vieira

We compare six popularly used evolutionary population synthesis (EPS) models (BC03, CB07, Ma05, GALEV, GRASIL, Vazdekis/Miles) through fitting the full optical spectra of six representative types of galaxies (star-forming and composite…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 X. Y. Chen , Y. C. Liang , F. Hammer , Ph. Prugniel , G. H. Zhong , M. Rodrigues , Y. H. Zhao , H. Flores

Context. Measuring how the physical properties of galaxies change across cosmic times is essential to understand galaxy formation and evolution. With the advent of numerous ground-based and space-borne instruments launched over the past few…

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