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We present new, high-to-intermediate spectral resolution stellar population models, based on four popular libraries of empirical stellar spectra, namely Pickles, ELODIE, STELIB and MILES. These new models are the same as our previous…

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We present an update of the grid of detailed atmosphere models and homogeneous synthetic spectra for hot, high-gravity subdwarf stars. High-resolution spectra and synthetic photometry were calculated in the wavelength range 1,000 \r{A} -…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-18 Thayse A. Pacheco , Ronaldo S. Levenhagen , Marcos P. Diaz , Paula R. T. Coelho

We introduce the ongoing MaStar project, which is going to construct a large, well-calibrated, high quality empirical stellar library with more than 8000 stars covering the wavelength range from 3622 to 10,354A at a resolution of R~2000,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-08-17 Renbin Yan , the MaStar Team

In this work we present a grid of LTE and non-LTE synthetic spectra of hot DA white dwarfs (WDs). In addition to its usefulness for the determination of fundamental stellar parameters of isolated WDs and in binaries, this grid will be of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Ronaldo S. Levenhagen , Marcos P. Diaz , Paula R. T. Coelho , Ivan Hubeny

We present a $0.7-2.5\mu m$ spectral library of 284 stars observed with the medium-resolution infrared spectrograph, SpeX, at the 3.0 meter NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Maunakea, Hawaii. This library extends the metallicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-28 Alexa Villaume , Charlie Conroy , Benjamin Johnson , John Rayner , Andrew W. Mann , Pieter van Dokkum

Libraries of stellar spectra find many uses in astrophysics, from photometric calibration to stellar population synthesis. We present low resolution spectra of 40 stars from 0.2 micrometers (ultraviolet) to 1.0 micrometers (near infrared)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Islam Khan , Guy Worthey

We present a complete library of synthetic spectra based on Kurucz's codes that covers the 2500-10500 Ang wavelength range at resolving powers 20,000, 11,500 (GAIA), 8500 (RAVE), 2000 (SLOAN) and uniform dispersions of 1 and 10 Ang/pix. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 U. Munari , R. Sordo , F. Castelli , T. Zwitter

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

I present a short description of the STELIB, HNGSL, IndoUS, MILES, ELODIE, UVES-POP, and IRTF libraries of empirical stellar spectra and show some applications of their use in population synthesis models. When new calculations of the TP-AGB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Bruzual A

We present a database of 908 spectra of 709 stars obtained with the ELODIE spectrograph at Observatoire de Haute-Provence. 52 orders of the echelle spectra have been carefully fitted together to provide continuous, high-resolution spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Philippe Prugniel , Caroline Soubiran

The X-shooter Spectral Library (XSL) is an empirical stellar library at medium spectral resolution covering the wavelength range from 3000 \AA to 24 800 \AA. This library aims to provide a benchmark for stellar population studies. In this…

Spectral evolution models are a widely used tool for determining the stellar content of galaxies. I provide a review of the latest developments in stellar atmosphere and evolution models, with an emphasis on massive stars. In contrast to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Claus Leitherer

We present the first release of XSL, the X-Shooter Spectral Library. This release contains 237 stars spanning the wavelengths 3000--10200 \AA\ observed at a resolving power $R \equiv \lambda / \Delta\lambda \sim 10000$. The spectra were…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-05-28 Yan-Ping Chen , S. C. Trager , R. F. Peletier , A. Lançon , A. Vazdekis , Ph. Prugniel , D. R. Silva , A. Gonneau

We present re-processed flux calibrated spectra of 406 stars from the UVES-POP stellar library in the wavelength range 320-1025 nm, which can be used for stellar population synthesis. The spectra are provided in the two versions having…

Stellar emission and absorption lines are routinely observed in galaxies at redshifts up to 5 with spectrographs on 8-10m class telescopes. While the overall spectra are well understood and have been successfully modeled using empirical and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-10 Claus Leitherer

We present the first models allowing one to explore in a consistent way the influence of changes in the alpha-element-to-iron abundance ratio on the high-resolution spectral properties of evolving stellar populations. The models cover the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-01-08 P. Coelho , G. Bruzual , S. Charlot , A. Weiss , B. Barbuy , J. Ferguson

We use the first release of the SDSS/MaStar stellar library comprising ~9000, high S/N spectra, to calculate integrated spectra of stellar population models. The models extend over the wavelength range 0.36-1.03 micron and share the same…

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

This paper is the second in a series, implementing a classification system for Gaia observations of unresolved galaxies. Our goals are to determine spectral classes and estimate intrinsic astrophysical parameters via synthetic templates.…