[工程科技]A new chemo-evolutionary population synthesis model for early-type galaxies I Theoretical.pdfVIP

A new chemo-evolutionary population synthesis model for early-type galaxies. I: Theoretical basis A. Vazdekis1 6 E. Casuso1 9 9 1 R. F. Peletier2,1 y a M J. E. Beckman1 7 1Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias,E-38200 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain 1 2 Kapteyn Instituut, Postbus 800, 9700 AV Groningen, Netherlands 1 v 2 1 1 5 ABSTRACT 0 6 We have developed a new stellar population synthesis model designed to study early- 9 type galaxies. It provides optical and near-infrared colors, and line indices for 25 absorp- / h tion lines. It can synthesize single age, single metallicity stellar populations or follow the p - galaxy through its evolution from an initial gas cloud to the present time. The model o incorporates the new isochrones of the Padova group and the latest stellar spectral li- r t braries. We have applied our model to new data for a set of three early-type galaxies, to s a find out whether these can be fitted using single-age old metal-rich stellar populations, : v as is normal practice when one uses other stellar models of this kind. The model is i X extensively compared with previous ones in the literature to establish its accuracy as r well as the accuracy of this kind of models in general. a Using the evolutionary version of the model we find that we cannot fit the most metal-rich elliptical galaxies if we keep the IMF constant and do not allow infall of gas. We do however reprodu