Abstract
We present near-infrared (0.7-3 um) synthetic spectra from
our initial population synthesis models of elliptical galaxies. We describe
some of the important details of our models and present the broad-band colors
measured from the resulting synthetic spectra as functions of age and
metallicity. Comparisons are made to the
models of Worthey (1994) and to observations of E/S0 galaxies. Overall,
the V-K and H-K colors and the CIT/CTIO CO indices of our models are in
reasonable agreement with photometry of elliptical galaxies, but our model
J-K colors are redder than the galaxies at a given V-K. We believe that
this is due to an overestimation of the oscillator strengths of the spectral
lines which make up the phi band of TiO, thus causing our J magnitudes to be
too faint.
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