Broad-band colors and overall photometric properties of template galaxy models from stellar population synthesis

Abstract

We present here a new set of evolutionary population synthesis models for template galaxies along the Hubble morphological sequence. The models, that account for the individual evolution of the bulge, disk, and halo components, provide basic morphological features, along with bolometric luminosity and color evolution (including Johnson/Cousins "UBVRcIcJHK", Gunn "gri", and Washington "CMT1T2" photometric systems) between 1 and 15 Gyr. Luminosity contribution from residual gas is also evaluated, both in terms of nebular continuum and Balmer-line enhancement.

19 pages and 14 figures. To appear in MNRAS. See http://www.bo.astro.it/~eps/home.html for more info on the models and data retrieval