Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-28
Astron.Astrophys.465:417-429,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20065075
In this work, we want to find out if the IMF can be determined from colour images, integrated colours, or mass-to-light ratios, especially at high redshift, where galaxies cannot be resolved into individual stars, which would enable us to investigate dependencies of the IMF on cosmological epoch. We use chemo-dynamical models to investigate the influence of the Initial Mass Function (IMF) on the evolution of a Milky Way-type disk galaxy, in particular of its colours. We find that the effect of the IMF on the internal gas absorption is larger than its effect on the light from the stellar content. However, the two effects work in the opposite sense: An IMF with more high mass stars leads to brighter and bluer star-light, but also to more interstellar dust and thus to more absorption, causing a kind of "IMF degeneracy". The most likely wavelength region in which to detect IMF effects is the infrared (i. e., JHK). We also provide photometric absorption and inclination corrections in the SDSS ugriz and the HST WFPC2 and NICMOS systems.
Ammon Karin
Buser Roland
Kautsch Stefan J.
Samland Markus
Westera Pieter
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