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The population and evolutionary synthesis of the integrated light of clusters and galaxies requires a good knowledge of the underlying stellar spectra. Libraries of observed stellar spectra can be used, but they have several disadvantages, e.g. uneven sampling — which causes problems in the integration phase. Furthermore, no comprehensive library of low- or highmetallicity stars does exist, which would be required to model chemical evolution. Libraries of synthetic spectra could — and should — solve these problems. Using Kurucz and more recent libraries dedicated to cool stars, we constituted a library covering the whole range of Teff:. 50 000 — 2500 K.
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Cuisinier, F., Lejeune, T., Buser, R. (1996). Towards a Complete Library of Stellar Spectra for Evolutionary Synthesis. In: Bender, R., Davies, R.L. (eds) New Light on Galaxy Evolution. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 171. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0229-9_67
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