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On the Origin of the UV Upturn in Elliptical Galaxies. I. Sensitivity of UV Population Synthesis to Various Input Parameters | | Sukyoung Yi
; Pierre Demarque
; Augustus Oemler
; Jr.
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21 May 1997 | | Subject: | astro-ph | | Affiliation: | 1,2), Pierre Demarque , Augustus Oemler, Jr. (1,3) ( Yale U., NASA/GSFC, Carnegie Observatories | | Abstract: | We present models of the late stages of stellar evolution intended to explain the UV upturn phenomenon in elliptical galaxies. Such models are sensitive to values of a number of poorly-constrained physical parameters, including metallicity, age, stellar mass loss, helium enrichment, and the distribution of stars on the zero age horizontal branch (HB). We explore the sensitivity of the results to values of these parameters, and reach the following conclusions. Old, metal rich galaxies, such as giant ellipticals, naturally develop a UV upturn within a reasonable time scale - less than a Hubble time - without the presence of young stars. The most likely stars to dominate the UV flux of such populations are low mass, core helium burning (HB and evolved HB) stars. Metal-poor populations produce a higher ratio of UV-to-V flux, due to opacity effects, but only metal-rich stars develop a UV upturn, in which the flux increases towards shorter UV wavelengths. Model color-magnitude diagrams and corresponding integrated spectra (for various values of age, metallicity, helium enrichment, mass loss efficiency, initial mass function, and the HB mass dispersion factor) are available on S.Y.’s world wide web site http://shemesh.gsfc.nasa.gov/model.html. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9705173 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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