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Large Number of Wolf-Rayet Stars in Emission-Line Galaxies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 August 2017

Jose Miguel Mas-Hesse  and
Daniel Kunth
Jose Miguel Mas-Hesse
Affiliation:
1 Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Daniel Kunth
Affiliation:
2 Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris, France

Abstract

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We present synthetic populations of massive stars that constrain the properties of the star formation episodes, predict the occurence, subtype distribution and evolution of WR star populations at solar and SMC metallicities. Instantaneous burst and continuous star formation rates have been considered. Our predictions have been tested on a sample of 17 galaxies. The evolution of the WR stars is qualitatively well reproduced. The IMF slope is flatter on average than in the solar vicinity and is not correlated with the metallicity. The extinction law is in general similar to that of the SMC, independently of metallicity.

Type
Session VIII. Inventory and Distribution
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 143: Wolf–Rayet Stars and Interrelations with other Massive Stars in Galaxies , 1991 , pp. 613 - 618
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1991 

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