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  • 21 - Population and Spectral Synthesis: It Doesn’t Work without Binaries

  • Edited by Giacomo Beccari, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Henri M. J. Boffin, European Southern Observatory, Garching
  • Book:
    The Impact of Binary Stars on Stellar Evolution
    Published online:
    05 April 2019
    Print publication:
    18 April 2019, pp 307-328

  • Summary

    This chapter discusses the population and spectral synthesis of stellar populations. It describes the method required to achieve such synthesis and discusses examples where inclusion of interacting binaries are vital to reproducing the properties of observed stellar systems. These examples include the Hertzsprung–Russel diagram, massive star number counts, core-collapse supernovae and the ionising radiation from stellar populations that power both nearby HII regions and the epoch of reionization. It finally offers some speculations on the future paths of research in spectral synthesis.