Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-09-03
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 338 (2003) 572
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06026.x
We present evolutionary population synthesis models for the study of the cool and luminous intermediate age stellar populations in resolved galaxies with particular emphasis on carbon star populations. We study the effects of the star formation history, the age and the metallicity on the populations of intermediate mass stars. In the case of instantaneous bursts, we confirm that lower metallicity results in higher contribution of carbon stars to the total star number, and in higher number ratios of carbon stars to late-type M stars. Chemically consistent models are used to study the effect of the star formation history on the relations between carbon star population properties and global parameters of the parent galaxy (age, metallicity). Our models are able to account, for the first time, for those correlations, as observed in the galaxies of the Local Group. For stellar populations older than 1 Gyr, the properties of carbon star populations are linked to the current metallicity in a way that is quite independent of the star formation scenario. The number of carbon stars to late-type M stars forms a metallicity sequence along which stellar populations with very different star formation histories are found (Abridged).
Lancon Ariane
Mouhcine Mustapha
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