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Modeling Tracers of Young Stellar Population Age in Star-forming Galaxies

  • Authors: Emily M. Levesque and Claus Leitherer

Levesque & Leitherer 2013 The Astrophysical Journal 779 170.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 3.

Evolution of W(Hβ) (top), W(Hα) (center), and W(Brγ) (bottom) with age for our instantaneous burst (left) and continuous star formation (right) models, demonstrating the effects of varying the IMF. The models shown here adopt the z = 0.014 v rot = 0 (solid lines) and v rot = 0.4 v crit (dashed lines) evolutionary tracks of Ekström et al. (2012) and IMFs with a 0.5  M –100  M mass range exponent of α = 1.3 (red), α = 2.3 (Kroupa, green), and α = 3.3 (blue).

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