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Metallicity-dependent Spectral Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 May 2016

Peeter Traat*
Affiliation:
Tartu Observatory, EE2400 Tartu, Estonia

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The initial chemical composition of stars is, besides the mass, another key factor in stellar evolution. Through stellar lifetimes and impact on radiation output and nucleosynthesis of stars it is controlling both the pace of evolution of galactic matter/light and changes in their integrated observables and spectra.

Type
Part 3: Star Formation Processes and Chemical Evolution
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1999 

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