Starburst99: Synthesis Models for Galaxies with Active Star Formation
D. Schaerer, Rosa María González Delgado, D. Devost
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series · 1999 · 4,023 citationsOpen access
Abstract
Starburst99 is a comprehensive set of model predictions for spectrophotometric and related properties of galaxies with active star formation. The models are an improved and extended version of the data set previously published by Leitherer & Heckman. We have upgraded our code by implementing the latest set of stellar evolution models of the Geneva group and the model atmosphere grid compiled by Lejeune et al. Several predictions which were not included in the previous publication are shown here for the first time. The models are presented in a homogeneous way for five metallicities between Z = 0.040 and 0.001 and three choices of the initial mass function. The age coverage is 10 6 —10 9 yr. We also show the spectral energy distributions which are used to compute colors and other quantities. The full data set is available for retrieval at a Web site, which allows users to run specific models with nonstandard parameters as well. We also make the source code available to the community.
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Leitherer, C., Schaerer, D., Goldader, J. D., Delgado, R. M. G., Robert, C., Kune, D. F., Mello, D. F. de, Devost, D., & Heckman, T. M. (1999). Starburst99: Synthesis models for galaxies with active star formation. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 123(1), 3–40. https://doi.org/10.1086/313233
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