Bibcode
Casuso, E.; Beckman, J. E.; Cepa, J.
Bibliographical reference
(Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Comision Interministerial de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Summer School on Evolutionary Phenomena in Galaxies, Puerto de la Cruz, Spain, July 4-15, 1988) Astrophysics and Space Science (ISSN 0004-640X), vol. 157, no. 1-2, July 1989, p. 89-101.
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1989
Citations
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Description
A cyclical approximation of the evolutionary synthesis of stellar
populations has been developed into a general solution for the mass and
time-dependence of the 'birth function' of stars. The general solution
allows introduction of a function, G(t), which is the ratio of gas
injected into a defined region to that which form stars in the same time
interval, at time t. On the basis of this direct relation of the output
of dying stars with the formation of the next generation, analytical
approximations can be made to the macroscopic evolution of stellar
populations in a well-defined zone of a galaxy. This is presently
demonstrated for the cases of four zones of the dwarf elliptical M32.