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Chemical hints of Population III stars from silicon abundances in massive galaxies
E. Eftekhari, A. Ferré-Mateu, A. Vazdekis +4
The formation of massive galaxies remains a fundamental question in astrophysics, with recent JWST observations suggesting that intense star formation occurred earlier than previou…
FASTAR -- II. Semi-resolved evolutionary stellar population models
Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Alexandre Vazdekis, Luis Peralta de Arriba +12
Standard evolutionary synthesis models rely on the assumption of a fully sampled stellar initial mass function (IMF). Under this assumption, the age, chemical composition, and IMF…
FASTAR -- I. Continuous and differentiable evolutionary stellar population models
Ignacio Martín-Navarro, Alexandre Vazdekis, Luis Peralta de Arriba +11
The development of evolutionary stellar population models is central to interpreting observations of galaxies in terms of astrophysical quantities. Stellar population models must t…
Elemental abundance ratios for the bulge of M31
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, F. Matteucci +3
We present radial trends of metallicity ([Fe/H]) and abundance ratios ([X/Fe]) for several chemical elements -- including C, N, Na, and the so-called alpha-elements (O, Mg, Si, Ca,…
IMF radial gradients in most massive early-type galaxies
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, I. Ferreras +8
Using new long-slit spectroscopy obtained with X-Shooter at ESO-VLT, we study, for the first time, radial gradients of optical and Near-Infrared IMF-sensitive features in a represe…
IMF and [Na/Fe] abundance ratios from optical and NIR Spectral Features in Early-type Galaxies
F. La Barbera, A. Vazdekis, I. Ferreras +5
We present a joint analysis of the four most prominent sodium-sensitive features (NaD, NaI8190, NaI1.14, and NaI2.21), in the optical and Near-Infrared spectral range, of two nearb…