Galaxy Evolution Group
c/o Ralf Kotulla
Center for Gravitation and Cosmology
Department of Physics
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1900 E Kenwood Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53211
United States of America
GALEV in a nutshell
GALEV evolutionary synthesis models
describe the evolution of stellar populations in general, of star clusters
as well as of galaxies, both in terms of resolved stellar populations
(time evolution of colour--magnitude diagrams) and of integrated
light properties over cosmological timescales of >13 billions years
from the Big Bang until today.
The prime feature that makes GALEV models
stand out among other evolutionary synthesis models is the simultaneous
treatment of the chemical evolution of the gas and the spectral evolution
of the stellar content. This allows for what we call a chemically
consistent treatment: use input physics (stellar evolutionary tracks,
stellar yields and model atmospheres) for a large range of metallicities
and consistently account for the increasing initial abundances of
successive stellar generations
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