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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2006
Here we present the results of an observational program aimed at providing a stellar library in the K band with an appropriate coverage of physical stellar parameters (effective temperature, gravity and metallicity) to be used for stellar population synthesis models. In particular, we study the behavior of the CO feature at 2.3 μm as a function of the stellar parameters and we will compute empirical fitting functions that can be easily implemented into stellar population models to provide accurate predictions for integrated CO strengths that will help to face outstanding problems in galaxy formation and evolution.