Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1994-02-18
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in `Hot Stars in the Halo' ed. S.J. Adelman (CUP 1994) (uuencoded compressed Postscript file, 12pp.)
Scientific paper
We present the case that populations of sdB/sdOB/sdO-type stars may be a common constituent of galactic stellar populations, responsible for the UV upturn (`UVX') observed in the spectra of spiral bulges and normal galaxy nuclei. Extreme Horizontal Branch stars with $\log g > 5$ and $\log \teff > 20,000K$ have emerged in the last few years as the most likely candidate for the origin of the UVX. The magnitude of this far-UV flux in some systems (e.g. NGC~1399, NGC~4649) indicates that galactic nuclear regions must contain larger numbers of these subdwarfs than does the solar neighbourhood. This paper summarizes the results of a quantitative study of the UV radiation from evolved stellar populations. We have computed a large grid of stellar models in advanced stages of evolution, as well as a set of isochrones for ages 2-20 Gyr, for a wide range in composition. We use these calculations to derive synthetic UV colour indices for stellar populations with hot components.
Dorman Ben
O'Connell Robert West
Rood Robert T.
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