Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1998-08-24
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
6 pages, 5 ps-figures, LaTex 2.09 uses paspcon.sty, to appear in Star Formation in Early-Type Galaxies, ASP Conf. Ser., eds. P
Scientific paper
Evolutionary synthesis models for stellar populations of various ages and chemical compositions are constructed with the approach described in Maraston (1998), in which the Fuel Consumption Theorem is used to evaluate the energetics of Post Main Sequence stars. We present here the synthetic `stellar' mass-to-light ratios (M*/L) in the U,B,V,R,I,J,H,K photometric bands, as functions of age and chemical composition, for single burst populations. Taking into account the contribution by stellar dead remnants, the computed M*/L ratios can be directly compared to those measured in early-type galaxies. The dependence of M*/L ratios on the IMF slope is also explored. The most interesting result is that the M*/L_B ratio of a 15 Gyr stellar population is found to increase by nearly a factor of three, when the chemical composition rises from [Fe/H] \sim -0.5 to [Fe/H] \sim +0.3. This impacts on the interpretation of the tilt of the Fundamental Plane of cluster ellipticals in the B band.
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